Hyracoidea

HyracoideaHuxley, 1869

Accepted name, MR.284

"Traditionally (since Huxley, 1869) the category or rank of ""Order"" has been used for Hyracoidea. In 1997, McKenna and Bell, following cladistic classification, proposed a new category – ""Suborder"" for Hyracoidea, in the ""Order"" Uranotheria McKenna and Bell (1997). For stability I retain the ordinal category, recognizing the cladistic message implied by the McKenna and Bell arrangement."

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.