Can you name the extant mammal from each given order?

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Source: Wilson and Reeder Mammal Species of the World
Note: Use common names, not Genus-Species name. Some less-common names will be accepted.
Also try: Marine Mammals

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# of Species	Example	Order
2277		Rodentia
1116		Chiroptera
428		Soricomorpha
376		Primates
287		Carnivora
240		Artiodactyla
143		Diprotodontia
93		Lagomorpha
87		Didelphimorphia
84		Cetacea
71		Dasyuromorphia
51		Afrosoricida
24		Erinaceomorpha
21		Peramelemorphia
21		Cingulata

# of Species	Example	Order
20		Scandentia
17		Perissodactyla
15		Macroscelidea
10		Pilosa
8		Pholidota
6		Paucituberculata
5		Monotremata
5		Sirenia
4		Hyracoidea
3		Proboscidea
2		Notoryctemorphia
2		Dermoptera
1		Microbiothermia
1		Tubulidentata

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Mammals by Order Quiz

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Created Jan 31, 2010 in Science
Featured Jun 4, 2011
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	miko:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 04:18 GMT	12 points
	How is this published and it still doesn't accept kangaroo?

	schulace:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 04:25 GMT	17 points
	This quiz made me all hot-blooded.

	Minkin:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT	8 points
	There's how many shrews?

	steel03:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 04:33 GMT	5 points
	...so many bats... shiver

	rockgolf:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 04:39 GMT	25 points
	@Minkin: Well there was the original Shrew, which I still think was the best, Shrew 2, Shrew the Third which was terrible, and finally Shrew Forever After. @Schulace: Fine, just don't lactate unless you clean up.

	dxdtdemon:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 05:22 GMT	34 points
	Of the four types of shrew, how many have been tamed?

	Shwoo:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 05:52 GMT	5 points
	For the carniverous marsupial order, I kept typing in "thylacine" and wondering why it didn't work. Then I reread the instructions.

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	SowCrates:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 07:27 GMT	-1 points
	Ah! Hyraxes. Must be the pudgiest-looking animal capable of climbing straight up and down walls

	fla:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 09:06 GMT	10 points
	Can you name a species of the order Microbiotherma? The Monito del Monte, he says "YES!".

	WCRoentgen:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 10:40 GMT	4 points
	Very difficult since when I studied zoology eons ago, all marsupials were in one order. Other than that, I think I did OK.

	rune:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 11:00 GMT	10 points
	...I just can't help wondering whether or not it is possible to type 2277 alternate answers for the first order.

	Omni314:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 11:39 GMT	-3 points
	there seem to be 2 elephants, and only one comes up when you type elephant

	snoreway:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 11:46 GMT	19 points
	When I saw "possums" as an exemplar after entering koala, I didn't enter opossum.

	Statto2:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 12:16 GMT	2 points
	@miko - kangaroo worked for me - maybe it's been fixed.

	Lions6116:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 13:44 GMT	0 points
	Is there room to fit my ex-wife's name in the shrew category?

	roonilwazlib:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 15:09 GMT	9 points
	Had to look up the monito del monte to see what it was... and it's adorable! This quiz was harder than expected, lots of fun. Great idea. Thanks!

	eab21:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 18:09 GMT	4 points
	My mom was an armadillo.

	Brabant:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 18:33 GMT	3 points
	I just love this quiz. First I typed in all the answers I knew from the names of the orders. Then I guessed as much different types of mammals I could think of. I got quite a few like that.

	dancastro:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 22:19 GMT	6 points
	@roonilwazlib: in spite of being a native speaker of Spanish, I had never seen "monito del monte" (the animal or the name) ever before in my life. So I also looked it up and it happened that the little mammal lives in Argentina. Guess the country I'm from.

	Jerdoggiedog:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 01:30 GMT	4 points
	The marsupials that came up made me think I had them all. Apparently they are a full-blown infraclass.

	marzoz10:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 01:49 GMT	12 points
	You have to be quite shrewd to do well on this quiz.

	TrumpetPlayer:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 02:16 GMT	0 points
	Very interesting quiz. More time would be nice in order to be able to recall some examples of the more obscure orders, though.

	jkoper:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 02:23 GMT	2 points
	How about accepting spiny anteater for echidna...should have room, right? Yeah, I should've just typed platypus, but I didn't.

	cmkeller:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 03:29 GMT	3 points
	Why doesn't it accept "cow"?

	rebelprince185:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 05:07 GMT	4 points
	I gave this quiz 5 globes just for the alerting me to the utter cuteness that is a Monito del Monte.

	Sapphire_Hart:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 10:24 GMT	4 points
	The order Cetacea is no longer true, it has merged with the Artiodactyla to form the order Cetartiodactyla (although still a little controversial): http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/23901861 http://www.springerlink.com/content/7182431083161727/ http://www.arkive.org/fin-whale/balaenoptera-physalus/

	Tom_Tildrum:	Jun 8th, 2011 at 21:04 GMT	9 points
	I had to keep reminding myself that this was limited to mammals, and stop trying answers like "chicken" or "dragon."

	dbeas5:	Jun 10th, 2011 at 13:40 GMT	0 points
	What happened to insectivora?

	emilystrange:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 12:35 GMT	5 points
	Insectivora has been removed from the tree of life because the animals within it turned out not to be related. Some have been placed into the orders Erinaceomorpha (not morphIa as the quiz suggests)and Soricomorpha.

	kororaa:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 04:24 GMT	2 points
	Make a birds one? :D

	emjaylambert:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 13:24 GMT	4 points
	Crikey that's hard. Great idea though and very educational. Ashamed to have missed elephants.