Castorimorpha
Suborder of rodents
Castorimorpha Temporal range: Early Eocene to Recent | |
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Ord's kangaroo rat | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Suborder: | Castorimorpha Wood, 1955 |
Extant families | |
Superfamily Castoroidea:
Superfamily Geomyoidea:
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Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers and the kangaroo rats. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Anomaluromorpha (the scaly-tailed squirrels and the springhare) and Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents).[1]
Taxonomy
- Suborder Castorimorpha
- Superfamily Castoroidea
- Family †Eutypomyidae
- Family Castoridae – beavers
- Family †Rhizospalacidae
- Infraorder Geomorpha
- Superfamily †Eomyoidea
- Family †Eomyidae
- Superfamily Geomyoidea
- Family †Heliscomyidae
- Family †Florentiamyidae
- Family †Entoptychidae
- Family Geomyidae – pocket gophers
- Family Heteromyidae – kangaroo rats and mice
- Superfamily †Eomyoidea
- Diplolophidae [citation needed]
- Genus †Floresomys
- Genus †Texomys
- Genus †Jimomys
- Genus †Diplolophus
- Genus †Schizodontomys
- Genus †Griphomys
- Genus †Meliakrouniomys
- Superfamily Castoroidea
† indicates extinct taxa.
References
Citations
- ^ Doronina, Liliya; Matzke, Andreas; Churakov, Gennady; Stoll, Monika; Huge, Andreas; Schmitz, Jürgen (3 March 2017). "The beaver's phylogenetic lineage illuminated by retroposon reads". Scientific Reports. 7 (1). doi:10.1038/srep43562. PMC 5335264.
Bibliography
- Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp 745–752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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Extant families in order Rodentia
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
("Squirrel-like")
- Aplodontiidae (Mountain beaver)
- Gliridae (Dormice)
- Sciuridae (Squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, susliks and prairie dogs)
("Beaver-like")
- Castoroidea
- Castoridae (Beavers)
- Geomyoidea
- Geomyidae (Pocket gophers)
- Heteromyidae (Kangaroo rats and mice, pocket mice)
("Mouse-like")
- Dipodoidea
- Dipodidae (Jerboas, jumping mice and birch mice)
- Muroidea
- Platacanthomyidae (Oriental dormice)
- Spalacidae (Zokors, bamboo rats, mole rats, blind mole rats)
- Calomyscidae (Mouse-like hamsters)
- Nesomyidae (Malagasy rats and relatives)
- Cricetidae (Hamsters and relatives)
- Muridae (House mouse and relatives)
("Anomalure-like")
- Anomaluridae (Anomalures)
- Pedetidae (Springhares)
("Porcupine-like")
- Ctenodactylidae (Gundis)
- Diatomyidae (Laotian rock rat)
- Hystricidae (Old World porcupines)
- Phiomorpha
- Bathyergidae (Blesmols)
- Petromuridae (Dassie rat)
- Thryonomyidae (Cane rats)
- Caviomorpha (New World hystricognaths)
- Erethizontidae (New World porcupines)
- Caviidae (Cavies)
- Cuniculidae (Pacas)
- Dasyproctidae (Agoutis and acouchis)
- Dinomyidae (Pacarana)
- Ctenomyidae (Tuco-tucos)
- Echimyidae (Spiny rats, coypus, hutias)
- Octodontidae (Degus and relatives)
- Abrocomidae (Chinchilla rats)
- Chinchillidae (Chinchillas and viscachas)
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