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Mammalian Orders

Can you name all taxonomic orders of class Mammalia, according to the 6th edition of Vaughan's Mammalogy? You are given the common names of some of the animals belonging to each order, alongside the etymology of the order's name.
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Class Mammalia
Subclass Prototheria
Subclass Theria
Infraclass Metatheria
Infraclass Eutheria
Representatives
Order
Meaning
Representatives
Order
Meaning
Representatives
Order
Meaning
Platypus, echidnas
Monotremata
"Single hole"
Opossums
Didelphimorphia
"Shaped as the double-wombed"
Tenrecs, golden moles
Afrosoricida
"Looking like African shrews"
 
Shrew opossums
Paucituberculata
"Few bumps [on their lower incisors]"
Elephant shrews
Macroscelidea
"Big legged"
Monitos del monte
Microbiotheria
"Little beast"
Aardvarks
Tubulidentata
"Having tubelike teeth"
Tasmanian tigers, numbats, tasmanian devils, quolls, dunnarts, planigale
Dasyuromorphia
"Shaped as the hairy tailed"
Elephants
Proboscidea
'Elephant's trunk'
Bandicoots, bilbies, echymiperas
Peramelemorphia
"Shaped as the pouch-badgers"
Dugongs, sea cows, manatees
Sirenia
"Siren"
Marsupial moles
Notoryctemorphia
"Shaped as the southern diggers"
Hyraxes
Hyracoidea
"Resembling a shrewmouse"
Koalas, wombats, cuscuses, kangaroos, wallabies, squirrel glider
Diprotodontia
"Two forward teeth"
Sloths, anteaters, tamanduas
Pilosa
"Hairy"
 
Armadillos
Cingulata
"Banded"
Colugos
Dermoptera
"Skin-wings"
Tree shrews
Scandentia
"Climbers"
Lemurs, sifakas, aye-ayes, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, humans
Primates
"First rank"
Beavers, squirrels, dormice, gophers, jerboes, mice, rats, mole rats, chinchillas, vizcachas, tuco-tucos, degus, maras, capibaras, coypus, agoutis
Rodentia
"Gnawers"
Pikas, rabbits, hares
Lagomorpha
"Shaped as hares"
Hedgehogs, gymnures, shrews, moles, desmans
Eulipotyphla
"True fat and blind"
Bats, flying foxes
Chiroptera
"Hand-wings"
Pangolins
Pholidota
"Clad in scales"
Cats, civets, fossas, mongooses, hyaenas, wolves, foxes, jackals, bears, pandas, walrus, seals, sea lions, weasels, badgers, otters, raccoons, coatis, red pandas
Carnivora
"Meat-eaters"
Horses, donkies, zebras, tapirs, rhinos
Perissodactyla
"Odd-toed"
Hogs, pigs, peccaries, hippos, camels, guanacos, llamas, deer, giraffes, okapis, antelopes, gazelles, bisons, cattle, goats, sheep
Artiodactyla
"Even-toed"
Whales, rorquals, dolphins, narwhals, belugas, porpoises, sperm whales,
Cetacea
"Sea monster"
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