Ailuridae

Also known as ailurid, red panda family

Ailuridae is a family in the mammal order Carnivora. The family consists of the red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives.

Research

124 papers

?Amphictis (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Belgrade Formation of North Carolina, USA.PeerJ · 2020
Mitogenomic analyses of caniform relationships.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2007
Implications of the functional anatomy of the hand and forearm of Ailurus fulgens (Carnivora, Ailuridae) for the evolution of the 'false-thumb' in pandas.Journal of anatomy · 2006
Development of short-target primers for species identification in biological studies of Carnivora.Ecology and evolution · 2023
Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2015

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Ailuridae is a family in the mammal order Carnivora. The family consists of the red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives.

Georges Cuvier first described Ailurus as belonging to the raccoon family in 1825; this classification has been controversial ever since. It was classified in the raccoon family because of morphological similarities of the head, colored ringed tail, and other morphological and ecological characteristics. Somewhat later, it was assigned to the bear family.