Pholidota
/ˌfɒlɪˈdəʊtə
/plural noun Zoology
A small order of mammals that comprises the pangolins.Attempts to resolve the relationships of Xenarthra and Pholidota to other eutherian mammals have not yet been exhausted....
- Some features of mammals that eat mostly ants and termites are used as examples of convergence; the most speciose assemblages of these mammals are in the orders Xenarthra and Pholidota.
- Unfortunately, information on the condition of feeding apparatus muscles in ant-eating taxa outside the Xenarthra and Pholidota is incomplete.
Origin
Modern Latin (plural), from Greek pholidōtos 'scaly', from pholis, pholid- 'scale'.
- prickleback
- prickle cell
- pricklefish
- prickle layer
- prickle pear
- prickless
- pricklet
- prickle-yellow
- prickliness
- pricklish
- pricklouse
- prickly
- prickly ash
- prickly box
- prickly broom
- prickly cedar
- prickly comfrey
- prickly fern
- prickly glasswort
- prickly grass
- prickly heat
- prickly lettuce
- prickly melon
- prickly Moses
- prickly palm