Castorimorpha

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]

Castorimorpha
Temporal range: Early Eocene to Recent
Ord's kangaroo rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Castorimorpha
Wood, 1955
Extant families

Superfamily Castoroidea:

Superfamily Geomyoidea:

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
    • Diplolophidae
      • Genus †Floresomys
      • Genus †Texomys
      • Genus †Jimomys
      • Genus †Diplolophus
      • Genus †Schizodontomys
      • Genus †Griphomys
      • Genus †Meliakrouniomys

† indicates extinct taxa.

References

Citations
  1. 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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