Scandentia

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Latin neuter plural of scandens (“climbing”). === Proper noun === Scandentia A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – the tree shrews. ==== Hypernyms ==== (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Euarchontoglires – superorder; Euarchonta – grandorder ==== Hyponyms ==== (order): Ptilocercidae, Tupaiidae – families === References === Scandentia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Scandentia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Scandentia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI