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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
GENUS Eliurus
| Author: | Milne Edwards, 1885. | | Citation: | Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (Paris), 20: Art. 1 bis. | | Type Species: | Eliurus myoxinus Milne-Edwards, 1885. | | Comments: | Genus arrayed as a monotypic tribe within Murinae by Ellerman (1941), an affinity confuted by molecular data (Dubois et al., 1996; Jansa et al., 1999). Ellerman (1949) set the precedent for recognizing only two species, the large polytypic E. myoxinus and the small monotypic E. minor, an arrangement later followed by F. Petter (1972c, 1975a) and others (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Honacki et al., 1982). Revised by Carleton (1994), who recognized 8 species and summarized their morphological identification and distributions; interspecific relationships based on cladistic interpretation of cytochrome b sequences studied by Jansa et al. (1999). Review of specific taxonomy and distributions, along with key to identification, provided by Carleton (2003). |
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