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Equus (genus)
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Equus is a genus o mammals in the faimily Equidae, which includes horse, asses, an zebras. Within Equidae, Equus is the anly recognized extant genus, comprisin seiven livin species.
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Equus | |
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Clockwise (frae tap left): kiang (E. kiang), Przewalski's horse (E. ferus przewalskii), Grévy's zebra (E. grevyi), domestic horse (E. f. caballus), onager (E. hemionus), plains zebra (E. quagga), ass (E. africanus asinus) an muntain zebra (E. zebra) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Faimily: | Equidae |
Genus: | Equus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species | |
E. africanus—African wild ass |
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