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Secundates

Secundates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (Primates). It included the suborders Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora.

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Secundates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature (Primates). It included the suborders Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora.

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  • BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839): “Nouvelle classification des Mammifères” in Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle, 3, pp. 268-269