Myocastoridae Ameghino 1904
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Myocastoridae Ameghino 1904
Myocastoridae Ameghino 1904, Anales Soc. Cient. Argentina, 56-58: 103.
Genera: 1 genus with 1 species:
Genus Myocastor Kerr 1792 (1 species with 4 subspecies)
Discussion: The higher-level classification of Myocastor remains unresolved. Myocastorids presumably evolved in the Oligocene of South America from an echimyid of the subfamily Adelophomyinae (Woods et al., 1992). The myocastorids have been included in Capromyidae by Hall (1981), Corbet and Hill (1991), and others, included in the Echimyidae (McKenna and Bell, 1997), and placed in the family Myocastoridae by Ameghino (1904), Woods and Howland (1979), and Woods (1993). Patterson and Pascual (1968 b) and Patterson and Wood (1982) considered both myocastorids and capromyids to be subfamilies of the Echimyidae, based on the retention of the deciduous premolar in these taxa. Sequence data support this placement, as Leite and Patton (2002) suggested the inclusion of Myocastor and Capromys within the Echimyidae. Although Leite and Patton (2002) identified Capromys as the sister taxon of Myocastor, their placement within the Echimyidae clade is not well supported and is in need of further examination. Though myocastorids are related to echimyids and capromyids, Woods (1972, 1982) and Woods and Howland (1979) concluded that there are too many morphological differences to unite myocastorids with either of these taxa in the same family.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ameghino
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Myocastoridae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myocastoridae Ameghino, 1904 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ameghino, F. 1904. Myocastoridae. Annales de la Sociedad Cientifica de Argentina, 56 - 58: 103.
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- Woods, C. A., L. Contreras, G. Willner-Chapman, and H. P. Whidden. 1992. Myocastor coypus. Mammalian Species, 398: 1 - 8.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.
- McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
- Woods, C. A., and E. B. Howland. 1979. Adaptive radiation of capromyid rodents. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 95 - 116.
- Woods, C. A. 1993. Suborder Hystricognathi. Pp. 771 - 806, in Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., 1206 pp.
- Patterson, B., and R. Pascual. 1968 b. New echimyid rodents from the Oligocene of Patagonia, and a synopsis of the family. Breviora, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, 301: 1 - 14.
- Patterson, B., and A. E. Wood. 1982. Rodents from the Deseadan Oligocene of Bolivia and the relationships of the Caviomorpha. Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, 149: 371 - 543.
- Leite, Y. L. R., and J. L. Patton. 2002. Evolution of South American spiny rats (Rodentia, Echimyidae): The star-phylogeny hypothesis revisited. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 25: 455 - 464.
- Woods, C. A. 1972. Comparative mycology of jaw, hyoid, and pectoral appendicular regions of New and Old World hystricomorph rodents. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 147: 115 - 198.