Ruminantia

The Ruminantia or ruminants is most of the Artiodactyla including sheep, goats, camels, and a few other forms. They have complex stomachs and ruminate their food.

Ruminantia Temporal range: Late Eocene? to Recent
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetartiodactyla
Suborder:	Ruminantia Scopoli, 1777
Families
Tragulidae  Moschidae  Cervidae  Giraffidae  Antilocapridae  Bovidae  †Climacoceratidae

What this means is that they can move food from one stomach to another and back again. This allows them to digest a wider range of food.

Classifiation

• ORDER CETARTIODACTYLA
  • Suborder Suina: pigs and peccaries
  • Suborder Tylopoda: camels and llamas
  • Suborder Whippomorpha: whales and hippopotamus
  • Suborder Ruminantia
    • Family †Amphimerycidae
    • Infraorder Tragulina (paraphyletic)
      • Family †Prodremotheriidae
      • Family †Hypertragulidae
      • Family †Praetragulidae
      • Family Tragulidae: chevrotains, 6 living species in 4 genera
      • Family †Leptomerycidae
      • Family †Archaeomerycidae
      • Family †Lophiomerycidae
    • Infraorder Pecora
      • Family †Climacoceratidae
      • Family Moschidae: musk deer, 4 living species in one genus
      • Family Cervidae: deer, 49 living species in 16 genera
      • Family Giraffidae: giraffe and okapi, 2 living species in 2 genera
      • Family Antilocapridae: pronghorn, one living species in one genus
      • Family Bovidae: cattle, goats, sheep, and antelope, 135 living species in 48 genera.

Related pages

• Cetartiodactyla

Ruminantia Media

• Cladogram of Cetacea within Artiodactyla (Camelus bactrianus)

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  Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères (Pl. 80) (white background)

• Tragulus napu - 1818-1842 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - (white background).jpg

  Tragulus napu - 1818-1842 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - (white background)

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  Walia ibex illustration white background

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  Voyage en Abyssinie Plate 2 (white background)

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  Tragulus napu - 1818-1842 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - (white background)

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  Antilocapra white background

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  Giraffa camelopardalis Brockhaus white background

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  The deer of all lands (1898) Hangul white background

• Gazelle rumination - zoom.webm

  An impala swallowing and then regurgitating food – a behaviour known as "chewing the cud"