Castorimorpha Explained

Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers and the kangaroo rats. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Anomaluromorpha (the scaly-tailed squirrels and the springhare) and Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents).^[1]

Taxonomy

• Suborder Castorimorpha
  • Superfamily Castoroidea
    • Family †Eutypomyidae
    • Family Castoridae – beavers
    • Family †Rhizospalacidae
  • Infraorder Geomorpha
    • Superfamily †Eomyoidea
      • Family †Eomyidae
    • Superfamily Geomyoidea
      • Family †Heliscomyidae
      • Family †Florentiamyidae
      • Family †Entoptychidae
      • Family Geomyidae – pocket gophers
      • Family Heteromyidae – kangaroo rats and mice
        • Diplolophidae Genus †Floresomys
    • Genus †Texomys
    • Genus †Jimomys
    • Genus †Diplolophus
    • Genus †Schizodontomys
    • Genus †Griphomys
    • Genus †Meliakrouniomys

† indicates extinct taxa.

References

Bibliography

• Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp 745–752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.

Notes and References

1. Doronina . Liliya . Matzke . Andreas . Churakov . Gennady . Stoll . Monika . Huge . Andreas . Schmitz . Jürgen . The beaver’s phylogenetic lineage illuminated by retroposon reads . Scientific Reports . 3 March 2017 . 7 . 1 . 10.1038/srep43562. free. 5335264 .