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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Gliridae
--> SUBFAMILY Leithiinae
GENUS Dryomys
| Author: | Thomas, 1905. | | Actual Date: | 1906 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(2): 348. | | Type Species: | Mus nitedula Pallas, 1778. | | Comments: | Evolutionary patterns of dental morphology during Pliocene and Pleistocene discussed by Nadachowski and Daoud (1995). Comparative vocalization data reviewed by Hutterer and Peters (2001). It is generally (but not universally) accepted that Eliomys is the closest living relative of Dryomys (see comments under Subfamily Leithiinae and references therein). However, phylogenetic analyses of nuclear DNA fragments and mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences clearly identified Dryomys as sister to Eliomys (Montgelard et al., 2003). |
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