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The order Carnivora is the sixth largest order of mammals, [22] comprising at least 279 species on every major landmass and in a variety of habitats, ranging from the cold polar regions of Earth to the hyper-arid region of the Sahara Desert and the open seas. Carnivorans exhibit a wide array of body plans, varying greatly in size and shape.
Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.
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Common name Binomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image Amur Leopard: Panthera pardus orientalis: 20-30 [1]: CR [1] [1]Numbers have fluctuated in recent censuses.
In December 2005, pictures (taken in 2003 [2]) of a potential new species of carnivoran, known in the press as the "cat-fox" were published. [3] The images were taken by a night-time camera trap set by the WWF on the Indonesian side of Borneo. [4]
Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The nomen novum (replacement name) Nepenthes sumagaya was published in the Autumn 2014 issue of Planta Carnivora. [4] Other taxa formally established in the magazine include the hybrids Drosera × eloisiana, Sarracenia × miniata, Sarracenia × slackii, and Sarracenia × soperi, as well as the sections Nepenthes sect. Alatae, Nepenthes sect. Micramphorae, and Nepenthes sect. Villosae.