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- proper noun obsolete A taxonomic
suborder within theorder Carnivora — theland carnivores .
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Examples
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The Fissipedia offer an instructive example, for while the Otariidae have the hind feet turned forward and can move on land somewhat like ordinary Mammals, the Phocidae cannot move their hind legs independently or turn them forward, and can only drag themselves about on land for short distances.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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We now come to the third group of the musteline animals, the most aquatic of all the Fissipedia -- the _Lutridae_ or Otters -- of which there are two great divisions, the common Otters (_Lutra_) and the
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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_Fissipedia_ (split-feet) or land Carnivora, and the _Pinnipedia_
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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This covers the Fissipedia (terrestrial forms) and Pinnipedia (marine forms).
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