Muroidea
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| Muroids Fossil range: Middle Eocene - Recent |
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Platacanthomyidae |
Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, Muridae, due to difficulties in determining how the subfamilies are related to one another. The following taxonomy is based on recent well-supported molecular phylogenies.
The muroids are classified in 6 families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera and at least 1300 species.
[edit] Taxonomy
- Family Platacanthomyidae - incertae sedis - (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice)
- Family Spalacidae fossorial muroids
- Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors)
- Subfamily Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats)
- Subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole rats)
- Clade Eumuroida - typical muroids
- Family Calomyscidae
- Subfamily Calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters)
- Family Nesomyidae
- Subfamily Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
- Subfamily Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice)
- Subfamily Mystromyinae (white-tailed rat)
- Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
- Subfamily Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse)
- Family Cricetidae
- Subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat)
- Subfamily Cricetinae (true hamsters)
- Subfamily Neotominae (North American rats and mice)
- Subfamily Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
- Subfamily Tylomyinae
- Family Muridae
- Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat)
- Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
- Subfamily Leimacomyinae (Togo Mouse)
- Subfamily Lophiomyinae (crested rat)
- Subfamily Murinae (Old World rats and mice including vlei rats)
- Family Calomyscidae
[edit] References
- Jansa, Sharon. A. & Weksler, Marcelo (2004), “Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences”, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31 (1): 256-276, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.002, <http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffmw1/pdfs/jansa.2004.pdf>.
- Michaux, Johan; Reyes, Aurelio & Catzeflis, François (2001), “Evolutionary History of the Most Speciose Mammals: Molecular Phylogeny of Muroid Rodents”, Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 (11): 2017-2031, ISSN 0737-4038, <http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/11/2017>.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Norris, R. W., K. Y. Zhou, C. Q. Zhou, G. Yang, C. W. Kilpatrick, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the zokors (Myospalacinae) and comments on the families of muroids (Rodentia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:972-978.
- Steppan, Scott; Adkins, Ronald & Anderson, Joel (2004), “Phylogeny and Divergence-Date Estimates of Rapid Radiations in Muroid Rodents Based on Multiple Nuclear Genes”, Systematic Biology 53 (4): 533-553, ISSN 1063-5157, doi:10.1080/10635150490468701, <http://bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/Steppan_et_al_Muroidea_2004.pdf>.
