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Pachydermata (meaning "thick skin") is an obsolete
order of
mammals described by
Georges Cuvier and at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it's
polyphyletic, the order Pachydermata is no longer in use, but it's important in the history of
systematics. Although it's often described as an artificial grouping of unrelated mammals, it was recognised as a grade of
hooved mammals to the exception of other
Ungulates by
zoologists such as
Charles Darwin, and anatomical characters do support the affinities of "Pachyderm" mammals to each other and to other Ungulates.
Cuvier's Pachydermata included the mammals now placed within
Perissodactyla,
Hyracoidea, and
Proboscidea, as well as the
Suina within
Artiodactyla. Therefore modern "Pachydermata" would be represented by the
horses and their relatives, the
tapirs, the
rhinoceroses, the
elephants, the
hippopotamuses, the
peccaries and the
pigs.
The term "pachyderm" is used informally, usually to describe
elephants and sometimes for
Rhinoceros, and
Hippopotamus.
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