Carnivores

Carnivora

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Carnivora (Carnivores) is a group of mammals. There are 289 species of carnivores, in 144 genera and 27 families. This group has been around since the Cenozoic Era. Carnivores includes groups like Miacids and Viverravidae. Reproduction is dioecious.

URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Cenozoic
Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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EOL has data for 21 attributes, including:

eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Caridea
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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66 million years ago
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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terrestrial habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002009
- Definition: A habitat that is on or at the boundary of the surface of the Earth.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl
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has pathogen
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002557
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Burkholderia mallei
is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Tunas
locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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digitigrade
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q184503
- Definition: animal that stands or walks on the full length of its digits/toes
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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11797
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Phocidae (earless seals)
preys on
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Bubo virginianus (Gmelin & JF 1788) (Great horned owl)
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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undescribed marine species present in museum collections
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/UndescribedSpeciesInMuseumCollections
- Definition: "marine species in this clade which are currently represented in specimen collections (estimate) (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)"
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of carnivores. View this species on GBIF

carnivores Habitats

The environments in which many carnivores species are known to live. Select an environment to see its carnivores species checklist.

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Carnivore Habitats

The environments in which many carnivores species are known to live. Select an environment to see its carnivores species checklist.

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