Afrotheria is a group of mammals that contains elephants, sea cows, tenrecs, golden moles, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephant sherws, and their extinct relatives. Most afrotherians live in Africa or of African origin.

The first afrotherians appeared in the early Paleogene after the non-avian dinosaurs are wiped out due to the KT mass extinction event. most groups of afrotherians share little or no superficial resemblance.

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Related implications

• afrotherian → mammal
• proboscidean → afrotherian (remove mammal implication)
• sirenian → afrotherian (remove mammal implication)
• afrosoricid → afrotherian (remove mammal implication)
• aardvark → afrotherian (remove mammal implication)
• hyrax → afrotherian
• sengi → afrotherian
• desmostylid → afrotherian
• embrithopod → afrotherian
• arsinoitherium → embrithopod

Related aliases

• afrotheria → afrotherian
• afrothere → afrotherian

-1. Clades as a whole are waaaaay too broad to be of any use in species tags, I don't see any practical use in utilizing clades.

BDS17 said:
Afrotheria is a group of mammals that contains elephants, sea cows, tenrecs, golden moles, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephant sherws, and their extinct relatives. Most afrotherians live in Africa or of African origin.

Those species seem to have too little in common to need a shared tag aside from mammal.

Furrin_Gok said:
Those species seem to have too little in common to need a shared tag aside from mammal.

I will just gonna to remove this. :/

As much as it would tickle my taint to use clades for tagging, I have to kinda go with the practicality issue. Interesting idea, though.