Title[edit]
WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials
Scope and Top page[edit]
This WikiProject aims to help organise our collection of entries about monotremes (egg-laying mammals) and marsupials (pouch-rearing mammals). These articles should all be contained in either the Category:Monotremes or Category:Marsupials.
Parentage[edit]
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Science.
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Mammals
- WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials
- WikiProject Mammals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
Related Wikiprojects[edit]
It is worth keeping one eye on several Wikiprojects that overlap with this one or that have made significant progress towards completion, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans, Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions, and WikiProject Conservation worldwide.
Participants[edit]
- Michael Jay Williams
- The Pharmacist
- UtherSRG
- Enlil Ninlil Australian extinct animals.
- liquidGhoul (partially active)
- Figaro
- Vsion
- Maias
- Rlendog
- Ainlina Factual
- T.carnifex
- User:Coby2
- User:ZayZayEM (partially active)
- Yukōshe
Recognized content[edit]
Featured articles[edit]
Good articles[edit]
Did you knows (DYKs)[edit]
Formerly recognized content[edit]
Former featured articles[edit]
Former good articles[edit]
Criteria for inclusion[edit]
See Wikipedia:Notability.
Names and titles[edit]
See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna).
Article contents[edit]
The following items are desirable for articles of all levels, although the detail will vary depending on several factors. These items do not need to be separated into distinct sections; text should flow in continuous prose so far as possible. The order this information is included is also relatively unimportant, although the order listed is generally preferred.
- Description (physical, behavioral) - what makes this (group of) critter(s) different from its close relatives?
- Habitat - where does it live? how broadly does it roam? maps are good
- Cultural, Religious, Economic, etc. importance - what impact has it had on humans? Include here use for experimental purposes that do not relate to other headings.
- Classification - how does it fit into the tree of life?
Task list and progress[edit]
- Create article for each Order and Family
- Ensure all Family articles are taxonomically consistent
- Ensure all articles between Order and Family rank are taxonomically consistent
- Create article for each Genus
- Ensure all articles between Family and Genus rank are taxonomically consistent
- Create articles for all Species
Create links for all species articles on appropriate articles- Create lists of uncreated articles to add to category pages:
Taxonomy and references[edit]
Marsupial taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. Join the discussion for other possibilities.
- Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition (2005) - use {{MSW3}} or one of its derivatives (such as {{MSW3 Groves}}) in the reference section.
- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Monotreme node & Marsupial node - particularly good for relationships among the extant and extinct species, although some nomenclature differs from MSW3
Use a taxobox[edit]
Platypus[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Monotremata |
Family: | Ornithorhynchidae |
Genus: | Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800 |
Species: | O. anatinus
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Binomial name | |
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799)
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Platypus range (indicated by darker shading)[3] |
In general, monotreme and marsupial entries should have a taxobox. This is something we have inherited from the Tree of Life WikiProject.
Talk pages[edit]
Place {{WikiProject Mammals}} at the top of an article's talk page. This will help direct editors to this page for guidance.
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Woinarski, J.; Burbidge, A.A. (2016). "Ornithorhynchus anatinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T40488A21964009. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T40488A21964009.en. Retrieved 8 November 2020. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
- ^ "Platypus facts file". Australian Platypus Conservancy. Retrieved 13 September 2006.