Talk:Glires

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I don't know if the text is wrong or if the picture is wrong, but lemurs are neither rodents nor lagomorphs, so if this group doesn't include primates, the picture needs to be changed. If it does include primates (which I doubt) then the text needs to be changed. I can't access the articles, so I don't know. Dave (talk) 00:30, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Based on the article Euarchontoglires; it seems you are correct and the lemur is not an example of a Glires species (though it is the very illustration used in the Eurachontoglires article). I borrowed the picture from mountain beaver to illustrate Glires.

I can find any mention of the name "Myochonta" anywhere. And it doesn't make much sense (myo- mouse? + -chonta from archonta?) Could someone provide a reference? Bennetto 05:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elephant Shrews and Aardvarks

According to the Afrotheia, it suggested that elephant shrews, and probably aardvarks may be related to the glires. Should we add that as a classiforcation problem, or add elephant shrews and aardvarks together to this group, and changed the name to glireungulate? From User:4444hhhh

We certainly shouldn't be making up new names for old, outdated hypotheses. The term that was used for Glires + Macroscelidea was Anagalida. No one has really hypothesized that aardvarks are related to Glires and that's not what the Afrotheria article says. They were thought to have ties to the ungulates. --Aranae 04:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)