Biology:Ailuropoda
| Panda | |
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| The giant panda, the only extant species in the genus and subfamily | |
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| Ailuropoda fovealis[clarification needed] skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ailuropodinae |
| Genus: | Ailuropoda |
| Type species | |
| Ailuropoda melanoleuca David, 1869[1]
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| Species | |
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†A. baconi | |
Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and three fossil species of panda.[2]
Only one species—Ailuropoda melanoleuca—currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies. Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.
Giant pandas have descended from Ailurarctos, which lived during the late Miocene.[2]
Etymology
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From Greek αἴλουρος aílouros "cat" + ‒ποδός ‒podós "foot" (gen. sg.). Unlike most bears, giant pandas do not have round pupils, but instead have vertical slits, similar to those of cats. This has not only inspired the scientific name, but in Chinese the giant panda is called "large bear cat" (大熊猫, dà xióngmāo).
Classification
- †Ailuropoda microta Pei, 1962Cite error: Closing
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- Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda) (David, 1869)[1]
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca (David, 1869)
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis Wan Q.H., Wu H. et Fang S.G., 2005[4]
Other pandas
The red, or lesser, panda (Ailurus fulgens) was formerly considered closely related to the giant panda. It is no longer considered a bear, however, and is now classified as the sole living representative of a different carnivore family (Ailuridae).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 David, Armand (1869). "Voyage en Chine". Bulletin des Nouvelles Archives du Muséum 5: 13. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13953952. "Ursus melanoleucus".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jin, Changzhu; Russell L. Ciochon; Wei Dong; Robert M. Hunt Jr.; Jinyi Liu; Marc Jaeger; Qizhi Zhu (June 19, 2007). "The first skull of the earliest giant panda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (26): 10932–10937. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704198104. PMID 17578912. Bibcode: 2007PNAS..10410932J.
- ↑ Woodward, A. Smith (1915). "On the Skull of an extinct Mammal related to Æluropus from a Cave in the Ruby Mines at Mogok, Burma". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85 (III): 425–428. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.tb07605.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31547420.
- ↑ Wan, Qiu-Hong; Wu, Hua; Fang, Sheng-Guo (2005). "A New Subspecies of Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from Shaanxi, China". Journal of Mammalogy 86 (2): 397–402. doi:10.1644/BRB-226.1.
Wikidata ☰ Q535979 entry
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