page_title: Mammalia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Bestiae
hierarchical_section_title: Mammalia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Bestiae
caption_attribution_description: Wildschwein, Wild boar, wood near Kiel
context_page_description: The Mammalia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae forms one of six classes of animals in Carl Linnaeus's tenth reformed edition written in Latin.
  The following explanations are based on William Turton's translations who rearranged and corrected earlier editions published by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johan Christian Fabricius and Carl Ludwig Willdenow:
  Animals that suckle their young by means of lactiferous teats. In external and internal structure they resemble man: most of them are quadrupeds; and with man, their natural enemy, inhabit the surface of the Earth. The largest, though fewest in number, inhabit the ocean.
  Linnaeus divided the mammals based upon the number, situation, and structure of their teeth; mammals have the following characteristics: Heart: two auricles, 2 ventricles. Warm, dark red blood; Lungs: respires alternately; Jaw: incombent, covered. Teeth usually within jaw; Teats: lactiferous; Organs of sense: tongue, nostrils, eyes, ears, and papillae of the skin; Covering: hair, which is scanty in warm climates, hardly any on aquatics; Supports: four feet, except in aquatics; and in most a tail.
context_section_description: Bestiae have indefinite numbers of fore-teeth on the sides, always one extra canine, an elongate nose used to dig out juicy roots and vermin.
  Sus (pigs)
  Sus scrofa – wild boar
  Sus porcus – red river hog
  Sus tajacu – collared peccary
  Sus babyrusa – Buru babirusa
  Dasypus
  Dasypus unicinctus – southern naked-tailed armadillo
  Dasypus tricinctus – Brazilian three-banded armadillo
  Dasypus quadricinctus − synonym of tricinctus
  Dasypus sexcinctus – six-banded armadillo
  Dasypus septemcinctus – seven-banded armadillo
  Dasypus novemcinctus – nine-banded armadillo
  Erinaceus
  Erinaceus europaeus – European hedgehog
  Talpa
  Talpa europaea – European mole
  Talpa asiatica – Cape golden mole
  Sorex
  Sorex araneus – common shrew
  Sorex cristatus – star-nosed mole
  Sorex aquaticus – eastern mole
  Didelphis
  Didelphis marsupialis – common opossum
  Didelphis philander – bare-tailed woolly opossum
  Didelphis opossum – grey four-eyed opossum
  Didelphis murina – Linnaeus's mouse opossum
  Didelphis dorsigera − synonym of murina
caption: A wild boar
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