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Fissipedia:
Fissipedia is a former biological suborder, comprising the land-based members of the order Carnivora. By and large members of the suborder are meat-eaters with the giant panda the most notable exception. In some former taxonomic classifications Pinnipedia is treated as an order in its own right, rather than as a suborder within Carnivora. In these classifications, Fissipedia is the sole suborder of Carnivora and is thus omitted on the grounds of redundancy. |
