Aplodontiidae

Aplodontiidae
Temporal range: Oligocene to present
Aplodontia rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Sciuromorpha
Family: Aplodontiidae
Brandt, 1855
Genera

See text

The family Aplodontiidae also known as Aplodontidae, Haplodontiidae or Haploodontini is traditionally classified as the sole extant family of the suborder Protrogomorpha. It may be the sister family of the Sciurids.[1] There are fossils from the Oligocene until Miocene in Asia, from Oligocene in Europe and from the Oligocene until nowadays in North America, where there is the only living species: the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).[2]

Systematics

It includes the following genera:

  • †Ameniscomys Dehm, 1950
  • †Ansomys Qiu, 1987
  • Aplodontia Richardson, 1829
  • †Dakotallomys[3] Tedrow and Korth, 1999
  • †Disallomys[4] Korth, 2009
  • †Ephemeromys Wang & Heissig, 1984
  • †Haplomys Miller and Gidley, 1918
  • †Leptoromys[5] Tedrow and Korth, 1997
  • †Liodontia Miller and Gidley, 1918
  • †Meniscomys Cope, 1879
  • †Niglarodon Black, 1961
  • †Ninamys[2] Vianey-Liaud, Rodrigues & Marivaux, 2013
  • †Oligopetes Heissig, 1979
  • †Paracitellus Dehm, 1950
  • †Paransomys[2] Vianey-Liaud, Rodrigues & Marivaux, 2013
  • †Proansomys[6] Bi, Meng, McLean, Wu, Ni & Ye, 2013
  • †Prosciurus Matthew, 1910
  • †Pseudaplodon Miller, 1927
  • †Sciurodon Schlosser, 1884
  • †Selenomys Matthew and Granger, 1923
  • †Sewelleladon Shotwell, 1958
  • †Tardontia Shotwell, 1958
  • †Trigonomys Heissig, 1979

References

  1. ↑ Wilson and Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 1 (3 ed.). p. 753. ISBN 9780801882210.
  2. 1 2 3 Vianey-Liaud, Monique; Gomes Rodrigues, Helder; Marivaux, Laurent (2013). "Early adaptive radiations of Aplodontoidea (Rodentia, Mammalia) on the Holarctic region: systematics, and phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 87 (1): 83–120. doi:10.1007/s12542-012-0143-3.
  3. ↑ A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1999. Paludicola 2(3):257.
  4. ↑ Korth, William W. (2009). "Mammals from the Blue Ash local fauna (late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 4: Family Aplodontidae". Paludicola. 7 (3): 89–106.
  5. ↑ A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1997. Paludicola 1(2):80-90.
  6. ↑ Bi, Shundong, Jin Meng, Sarah McLean, Wenyu Wu, Xijun Ni & Jie Ye. 2013. A New Genus of Aplodontid Rodent (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Oligocene of Northern Junggar Basin, China. Public Library of Science, ONE 8(1): e52625.
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