Ruminants facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ruminantia Temporal range: Late Eocene? to Recent
White-tailed Deer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetartiodactyla
Suborder:	Ruminantia Scopoli, 1777
Families
Tragulidae  Moschidae  Cervidae  Giraffidae  Antilocapridae  Bovidae  †Climacoceratidae

The biological suborder Ruminantia this majority of the Artiodactyla including sheep, goats, camels, and other forms which have a complex stomach and ruminate their food.

Classifiation

• ORDER CETARTIODACTYLA
  • Suborder Suina: pigs and peccaries
  • Suborder Tylopoda: camels and llamas
  • Suborder Whippomorpha: whales and hippopotamus
  • Suborder Ruminantia
    • Family †Amphimerycidae
    • Infraorder Tragulina (paraphyletic)
      • Family †Prodremotheriidae
      • Family †Hypertragulidae
      • Family †Praetragulidae
      • Family Tragulidae: chevrotains, 6 living species in 4 genera
      • Family †Leptomerycidae
      • Family †Archaeomerycidae
      • Family †Lophiomerycidae
    • Infraorder Pecora
      • Family †Climacoceratidae
      • Family Moschidae: musk deer, 4 living species in one genus
      • Family Cervidae: deer, 49 living species in 16 genera
      • Family Giraffidae: giraffe and okapi, 2 living species in 2 genera
      • Family Antilocapridae: pronghorn, one living species in one genus
      • Family Bovidae: cattle, goats, sheep, and antelope, 135 living species in 48 genera.

Related pages

• Cetartiodactyla

Images for kids

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  Stylised illustration of a ruminant digestive system

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  Different forms of the stomach in mammals. A, dog; B, Mus decumanus; C, Mus musculus; D, weasel; E, scheme of the ruminant stomach, the arrow with the dotted line showing the course taken by the food; F, human stomach. a, minor curvature; b, major curvature; c, cardiac end G, camel; H, Echidna aculeata. Cma, major curvature; Cmi, minor curvature. I, Bradypus tridactylus Du, duodenum; MB, coecal diverticulum; **, outgrowths of duodenum; †, reticulum; ††, rumen. A (in E and G), abomasum; Ca, cardiac division; O, psalterium; Oe, oesophagus; P, pylorus; R (to the right in E and to the left in G), rumen; R (to the left in E and to the right in G), reticulum; Sc, cardiac division; Sp, pyloric division; WZ, water-cells. (from Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy)

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  Food digestion in the simple stomach of nonruminant animals versus ruminants

See also

In Spanish: Ruminantia para niños