Ailuropoda
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Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and three fossil species of panda.[4]
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Panda | |
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The giant panda, the only extant species in the genus and subfamily | |
Ailuropoda fovealis[clarification needed] skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Subfamily: | Ailuropodinae |
Genus: | Ailuropoda Milne-Edwards, 1870[1][2] |
Type species | |
Ailuropoda melanoleuca | |
Species | |
†A. baconi |
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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.
Giant pandas have descended from Ailurarctos, which lived during the late Miocene.[4]