Classification of mammals : above the species level

摘要: Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to date on systematics, relationships, occurrences all mammal taxa, living extinct, down through rank genus. Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, paleontological record has been recalibrated, intervening years have seen much debate progress concerning theoretical underpinnings systematization. inherited project from Simpson and, with Bell, constructed a completely updated hierarchical system that reflects genealogy Mammalia.