Artiodactyla
The listings for the Artiodactyla include a number of species not
occurring in the desert Southwest and omits several introduced forms.
- Order Artiodactyla: Artiodactyls
- Suborder Suiformes: Pig-like
Artiodactyls
- Family Suidae: Pigs
- Sus scrofa: Domestic Pig, Wild
Boar
- Family Tayassuidae: Peccaries
- Pecari tajacu: Collared
Peccary
- Suborder Tylopoda: Camel-like
Artiodactyls
- Family Camelidae: Camels
- Suborder Ruminantia: Ruminants
- Superfamily Cervoidea: Deer-like
Ruminants
- Family Antilocapridae:
Pronghorns
- Antilocapra americana:
Pronghorn
- Family Cervidae: Deer
- Alces alces: Moose
- Cervus canadensis: Elk
- Odocoileus hemionus: Mule
Deer
- Odocoileus virginianus:
White-tailed Deer
- Rangifer tarandus:
Caribou
- Superfamily Giraffoidea: Giraffe-like
Artiodactyls
- Family Giraffidae: Giraffes
- Superfamily Bovoidea: Cattle and
Antelope-like Artiodactyls
- Family Bovidae: Cattle, Antelope,
Sheep, Goats, and kin
- Subfamily Antilopinae: Antelopes
- Subfamily Caprinae: Goats and
Sheep
- Ammotragus lervia: Aoudad
(Barbary Sheep)
- Capra hircus: Goat
- Ovis aries: Domestic
Sheep
- Ovis canadensis: Bighorn
Sheep
- Oreamnos americanus: Mountain
Goat
- Ovibos moschatus: Muskox
- Subfamily Bovinae: Bovines
- Bos taurus: Cattle
- Bos bison: American Bison
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Latest Update: 18 Jul 2005