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Ailuropoda
Sign in to saveAiluropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and one or more fossil species of panda.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCarnivora
- FamilyUrsidae
Observations recorded325
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Ursidae
- Collections
- YPM, AMNH, ANSP, MNHN
- Recorded in
- China
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Classification
- Other pandas
- References
Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and one or more fossil species of panda.
Only one species—Ailuropoda melanoleuca—currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies. Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ailuropoda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.