Micaelamys Ellerman 1941
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Micaelamys Ellerman 1941
Micaelamys Ellerman 1941, Families and Genera of Living Rodents, Vol. 2: 170.
Type Species: Mus granti Wroughton 1908
Species and subspecies: 2 species:
Species Micaelamys granti (Wroughton 1908)
Species Micaelamys namaquensis (A. Smith 1834)
Discussion: Aethomys Division. Formerly included in Aethomys as a subgenus, but a variety of data sets ranging from morphological to molecular indicate the two species discussed below belong in a monophyletic group, Micaelamys, separate from that containing species of Aethomys (see generic account of Aethomys). References cited in the following accounts treated granti and namaquensis as species of Aethomys. Including Micaelamys with Aethomys in the same Division is provisional. In phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA cytochrome b sequences, Aethomys (represented by A. chrysophilus and A. kaiseri) is closest to Grammomys, while Micaelamys (M. namaquensis) joins other African genera depending on the analyses (Castiglia et al., 2003 b; Ducroz et al., 2001). Phylogenetic analyses employing a broader sampling of not only species in Aethomys but of endemic African murine genera using molecular, chromosomal, and morphological data sets may resolve the phylogenetic relationships of Aethomys and Micaelamys. Evolutionary history as documented by fossils extends back to the late Pliocene of South Africa (" A. cf. namaquensis "; Denys, 1990 c), and Pleistocene of Namibia (" Micaelamys "; Senut et al., 1992).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/A688C567D4843E40FA2F3798B93C9D39 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540165 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ellerman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Micaelamys
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Micaelamys Ellerman, 1941 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Castiglia, R., M. Corti, P. Colangelo, F. Annesi, E. Capanna, W. Verheyen, A. M. Sichilima, and R. Makundi. 2003 b. Chromosomal and molecular characterization of Aethomys kaiseri from Zambia and Aethomys chrysophilus from Tanzania (Rodentia, Muridae). Hereditas, 139: 81 - 89.
- Ducroz, J. - F., V. Volobouev, and L. Granjon. 2001. An assessment of the systematics of Arvicanthine Rodents using mitochondrial DNA sequences: Evolutionary and biogeographical implications. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 8: 173 - 206.
- Denys, C. 1990 c. Deux nouvelles especes d'Aethomys (Rodentia, Muridae) a Langebaanweg (Pliocene, Afrique du Sud): Implications phylogenetiques et paleoecologiques. Annales de Paleontologie (Vert. - Invert.), 76 (1): 41 - 69.
- Senut, B., M. Pickford, P. Mein, G. Conroy, and J. Van Couvering. 1992. Discovery of 12 new Late Cainozoic fossiliferous sites in palaeokarsts of the Otavi Mountains, Namibia. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris), 314 (ser. II): 727 - 733.