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
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| Ord's kangaroo rat | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Castorimorpha Wood, 1955 |
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Superfamily Castoroidea: Superfamily Geomyoidea: | |
Taxonomy
edit- 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
- Superfamily †Eomyoidea
- Diplolophidae [citation needed]
- Genus †Floresomys
- Genus †Texomys
- Genus †Jimomys
- Genus †Diplolophus
- Genus †Schizodontomys
- Genus †Griphomys
- Genus †Meliakrouniomys
- Superfamily Castoroidea
† indicates extinct taxa.
References
editCitations
edit- ^ 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
edit- 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
