Mesocapromys

Mesocapromys
Mesocapromys angelcabrerai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Capromyidae
Subfamily:Capromyinae
Tribe:Capromyini
Genus:Mesocapromys
Varona, 1970
Species

Mesocapromys angelcabrerai
Mesocapromys auritus
Mesocapromys melanurus
Mesocapromys nanus
Mesocapromys sanfelipensis

Synonyms

Paracapromys Kratochvíl, Rodriguez, & Barus, 1978
Pygmaeocapromys Varona, 1979
Stenocapromys Varona & Arrendondo, 1979

Mesocapromys is a genus of rodent in the family Capromyidae.[1] The genus is restricted to Cuba and associated islands.

Systematics

Mesocapromys contains the five following species:[1]

Phylogeny

Within Capromyidae, the closest relative of Mesocapromys is the genus Mysateles. Both genera are the sister group to Capromys, and then Geocapromys is a more distant genus. In turn, these four genera belong to the tribe Capromyini, and are the sister group to Plagiodontia.

Genus-level cladogram of the Capromyidae
with their relationship to Carterodon and Euryzygomatomyinae.

root  

Euryzygomatomyinae

         

  Trinomys (Atlantic spiny rats)

 
 

         

  Euryzygomatomys (guiaras)  

 
 

  Clyomys  

 
 
 
 

 

  Carterodon (Owl's spiny rat)  

 
Capromyidae

  Plagiodontini  

  Plagiodontia

 
  Capromyini  

 

  Geocapromys

 
         

         

         

  Mesocapromys

 
 

  Mysateles

 
 
 

  Capromys (Desmarest's hutia)

 
 
 
 
 
 
The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Genus Mesocapromys". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ↑ Galewski, Thomas; Mauffrey, Jean-François; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Patton, James L.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2005). "Ecomorphological diversification among South American spiny rats (Rodentia; Echimyidae): a phylogenetic and chronological approach". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 601–615. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.015.
  3. ↑ Upham, Nathan S.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2012). "Diversification and biogeography of the Neotropical caviomorph lineage Octodontoidea (Rodentia: Hystricognathi)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (2): 417–429. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.020.
  4. ↑ Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Galewski, Thomas; Tilak, Marie-ka; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2013-03-01). "Diversification of South American spiny rats (Echimyidae): a multigene phylogenetic approach". Zoologica Scripta. 42 (2): 117–134. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00572.x. ISSN 1463-6409.
  5. ↑ Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Vilstrup, Julia T.; Raghavan, Maanasa; Der Sarkissian, Clio; Willerslev, Eske; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.; Orlando, Ludovic (2014-07-01). "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics". Biology Letters. 10 (7): 20140266. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0266. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 4126619.
  6. ↑ Upham, Nathan S.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2015). "Evolution of Caviomorph rodents: a complete phylogeny and timetree for living genera". In Vassallo, Aldo Ivan; Antenucci, Daniel. Biology of caviomorph rodents: diversity and evolution. Buenos Aires: SAREM Series A, Mammalogical Research — Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos. pp. 63–120.
  7. ↑ Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Upham, Nathan S.; Emmons, Louise H.; Justy, Fabienne; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Loss, Ana Carolina; Orlando, Ludovic; Tilak, Marie-Ka; Patterson, Bruce D.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2017-03-01). "Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw261. ISSN 0737-4038.


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