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MYOMORPHA Brandt 1855

Description

MYOMORPHA Brandt 1855

Families: 7 families with 326 genera and 1569 species:

Family Dipodidae Fischer de Waldheim 1817 (16 genera with 51 species)

Family Platacanthomyidae Alston 1876 (2 genera with 2 species)

Family Spalacidae Gray 1821 (6 genera with 36 species)

Family Calomyscidae Vorontsov and Potapova 1979 (1 genus with 8 species)

Family Nesomyidae Major 1897 (21 genera with 61 species)

Family Cricetidae Fischer 1817 (130 genera with 681 species)

Family Muridae Illiger 1811 (150 genera with 730 species and 5 subspecies)

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 871-893 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 871, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Brandt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Taxon rank
subOrder
Taxonomic concept label
MYOMORPHA Brandt, 1855 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Alston, E. R. 1876. On the classification of the order Glires. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1876: 61 - 98.
  • Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310.
  • Vorontsov, N. N., and E. G. Potapova. 1979. [Taxonomy of the genus Calomyscus (Cricetidae). 2. Status of Calomyscus in the system of Cricetinae.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 58: 1391 - 1397 (in Russian).
  • Major, C. I. F. 1897. On the Malagasy rodent genus Brachyuromys; and on the mutual relations of some groups of the Muridae (Hesperomyinae, Microtinae, Murinae, and " Spalacidae ") with each other and with the Malagasy Nesomyinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897: 695 - 720.
  • Illiger, C. D. 1811. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis uttriusque classis. Salfeld, Berlin, 301 pp.