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Definition: Ailuropoda

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae.[Wordnet].

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Date "Ailuropoda" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1999. (references)

Common Expressions: Ailuropoda

Expressions Definition
Ailuropoda melanoleuca Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Genus Ailuropoda Only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Extended Definition: Ailuropoda

Ailuropoda

Ailuropoda
Fossil range: Late Pliocene to Recent

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ailuropoda
Milne-Edwards, 1870
Species

†A. baconi
A. melanoleuca
†A. microta
†A. wulingshanensis

Ailuropoda is an ursid genus containing four species of giant pandas[1]. Only one species, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies.

Pandas are descended from Ailurarctos, which lived during the late Miocene[1].

Classification

References

  1. a b Jin, Changzhu; Russell L. Ciochon, Wei Dong, Robert M. Hunt Jr., Jinyi Liu, Marc Jaeger and Qizhi Zhu (June 19, 2007). "The first skull of the earliest giant panda" (PDF; fee required). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (26): 10932-10937. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704198104. Retrieved on 2007-06-19. 

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Synonym: Ailuropoda
Position Synonym (sorted by strength)

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 genus Ailuropoda.
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Translations: Ailuropoda

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified 大猫熊属 (ailuropoda). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, ailuropoda. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 大貓熊屬 (ailuropoda). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, ailuropoda. (volunteer & more translations)
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