Hystricomorpha
| Hystricomorpha Temporal range: Eocene to recent,
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| Capybara | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Hystricomorpha Brandt, 1855[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Caviomorpha | |
The term Hystricomorpha (from Greek ὕστριξ, hystrix 'porcupine' and Greek μορφή, morphē 'form')Anomaluridae, and Pedetidae. Molecular and morphological results suggest the inclusion of the Anomaluridae and Pedetidae in Hystricomorpha may be suspect. Based on Carleton & Musser 2005, these two families are discussed here as representing a distinct suborder Anomaluromorpha.
Classification
hystricomorphy
.The modern definition of Hystricomorpha, also known as Entodacrya or Ctenohystrica, is a taxonomic hypothesis uniting the
paraphyletic
group.
The hystricomorph rodents, or at least members of Caviomorpha, are sometimes not regarded as rodents.[4] Most molecular and genetic research, however, confirms the monophyly of rodents.[5] Support for rodent polyphyly appears to be a product of long branch attraction.[6]
Hystricomorph rodents appeared in
primates,[8] which also appeared in South America in the Eocene when it was an isolated continent, long before the Great American Interchange
. All of this is still controversial, and new scientific discoveries on this subject are published regularly.
Families
The following list of families is based on the
extinct
groups.
- Suborder Hystricomorpha
- Superfamily Ctenodactyloidea
- †Chapattimyidae
- Ctenodactylidae– gundis
- Diatomyidae – Laotian rock rat
- †Tamquammyidae
- †Yuomyidae
- Hystricognathiformes
- †Tsaganomyidae
- Hystricognathi – true hystricognaths
- †Baluchimyinae
- Phiomorpha
- Bathyergidae– blesmols
- †Bathyergoididae
- †Diamantomyidae
- Hystricidae– Old World porcupines
- †Kenyamyidae
- †Myophiomyidae
- Petromuridae – dassie rat
- †Phiomyidae
- Thryonomyidae – cane rats
- Caviomorpha – New World hystricognaths
- Superfamily Cavioidea
- Caviidae – cavies, capybaras, and guinea pigs
- †Cephalomyidae
- Cuniculidae– pacas
- Dasyproctidae – agoutis and acouchis
- Dinomyidae – pacarana
- †Eocardiidae
- †Neoepiblemidae
- Superfamily Chinchilloidea
- Abrocomidae– chinchilla rats
- Chinchillidae – chinchillas and viscachas
- Superfamily Erethizontoidea
- Erethizontidae– New World porcupines
- Superfamily Octodontoidea
- Capromyidae– hutias
- Ctenomyidae– tuco-tucos
- Echimyidae – spiny rats
- †Heptaxodontidae – giant hutias
- Myocastoridae– nutria
- Octodontidae – degus and relatives
- Superfamily
- Superfamily
Citations
- ^ Brandt 1855
- ^ "Hystricomorpha". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Carleton & Musser 2005
- ^ Graur, Hide & Li 1991; D'Erchia et al. 1996; Reyes, Pesole & Saccone 2000
- ^ Cao et al. 1994; Kuma & Miyata 1994; Sullivan & Swofford 1997; Robinson-Rechavi, Ponger & Mouchiroud 2000; Lin et al. 2002; Reyes et al. 2004
- ^ Bergsten 2005
- PMID 21993503.
- S2CID 4456556.
General references
- Bergsten, J. (2005). "A review of long-branch attraction". Cladistics. 21 (2): 163–193. .
- Brandt, J. F. (1855). Beitrage zur nahern Kenntniss der Saugethiere Russlands (in German).
- Cao, Y.; Adachi, J.; Yano, T.; Hasegawa, M. (1994). "Phylogenetic place of guinea pigs: No support of the rodent-polyphyly hypothesis from maximum-likelihood analyses of multiple protein sequences". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 11 (4): 593–604. PMID 8078399.
- Carleton, M. D.; Musser, G. G. (2005). "Order Rodentia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 745–752. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.
- D'Erchia, A.; Gissi, C.; Pesole, G.; Saccone, C.; Arnason, U. (1996). "The guinea-pig is not a rodent". Nature. 381 (6583): 597–600. S2CID 4336262.
- Flynn, J. J.; Wyss, A. R.; Croft, D. A.; Charrier, R. (2003). "The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American Land Mammal 'Age'". ISSN 0031-0182.
- Graur, D.; Hide, W.; Li, W. (1991). "Is the guinea-pig a rodent?". Nature. 351 (6328): 649–652. S2CID 4344039.
- Kuma, K.; Miyata, T. (1994). "Mammalian phylogeny inferred from multiple protein data" (PDF). Japanese Journal of Genetics. 69 (5): 555–66. PMID 7999372.[permanent dead link]
- Lin, Y.-H.; McLenachan, P. A.; Gore, A. R.; Phillips, M. J.; Ota, R.; Hendy, M. D.; Penny, D. (2002). "Four new mitochondrial genomes and the increased stability of evolutionary trees of mammals from improved taxon sampling". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19 (12): 2060–2070. PMID 12446798.
- Marivaux, L.; Vianey-Liaud, M.; Jaeger, J.-J. (2004). "High-level phylogeny of early Tertiary rodents: dental evidence". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142 (1): 105–134. .
- Marivaux, L.; Welcomme, J.-L.; Vianey-Liaud, M.; Jaeger, J.-J. (2002). "The role of Asia in the origin and diversification of hystricognathous rodents". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (3): 225–239. S2CID 86358222.
- McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11013-8.
- Reyes, A.; Pesole, G.; Saccone, C. (2000). "Long-branch attraction phenomenon and the impact of among-site rate variation on rodent phylogeny". Gene. 259 (1–2): 177–187. PMID 11163975.
- Reyes, A.; Gissi, C.; Catzeflis, F.; Nevo, E.; Pesole, G.; Saccone, C. (2004). "Congruent mammalian trees from mitochondrial and nuclear genes using Bayesian methods". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21 (2): 397–403. PMID 14660685.
- Robinson-Rechavi, M.; Ponger, L.; Mouchiroud, D. (2000). "Nuclear gene LCAT supports rodent monophyly". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17 (9): 1410–1412. PMID 10960041.
- Sullivan, J.; Swofford, D. L. (1997). "Are Guinea Pigs Rodents? The Importance of Adequate Models in Molecular Phylogenetics" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 4 (2): 77–86. S2CID 5756010.