Mice relatives

Mice relatives
Brown Rat ( Rattus norvegicus )
Systematics
Class : Mammals (mammalia) Subclass : Higher mammals (Eutheria) Superordinate : Euarchontoglires without rank: Glires Order : Rodents (Rodentia) Subordination : Mice relatives
Scientific name
Myomorpha
Brandt , 1855

The mouse relatives (Myomorpha) are a subordination of the rodents (Rodentia). With over 1,600 species, they make up more than a quarter of all mammal species.

In the past, a number of families were counted in this group, Carleton and Musser (2005) redefined the suborders of rodents according to morphological and molecular genetic aspects and only summarize two superfamilies in this suborder:

• the Dipodoidea with a family, the gerbils (Dipodidae) and
• the superfamily of the mice (Muroidea) with the following families:
  • Nesomyidae
  • Burrowers (Cricetidae; with the hamsters , voles and New World mice )
  • Long-tailed mice (Muridae)
  • Stachelblche (Platacanthomyidae)
  • Spalacidae
  • Mouse hamster (Calomyscidae)

In the Handbook of the Mammals of the World , a standard work on mammalogy , two other families are recognized as independent, the birch mice (Sicistidae) and the jumping mice (Zapodidae). Both families are counted among the jerboa in older classifications.

A graphic representation of the possible phylogenetic relationships according to Heritage and colleagues (2016) looks like this:

Mice relatives	Dipodoidea   Jumping mice (Zapodidae)      Jerboa (Dipodidae)   Muroidea   Stachelblche (Platacanthomyidae)      Spalacidae   Eumuroida   Nesomyidae      Mouse hamster (Calomyscidae)      Burrowers (Cricetidae)      Long-tailed mice (Muridae)

Other families, which used to be counted among the mouse relatives, are now assigned to other rodent subordinates. These are:

• the dormice (Gliridae), which are therefore counted among the croissant relatives,
• the pocket rats (Geomyidae) and pocket mice (Heteromyidae), which together with the beavers form the group of beaver relatives (Castorimorpha).

literature

• Michael D. Carleton, Guy G. Musser: Order Rodentia. In: Don E. Wilson , DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. Volume 2. 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 , pp. 745-1600.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Don E. Wilson , Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, Russell A. Mittermeier : Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Rodents II. Volume 7. Lynx Edicions, 2017, ISBN 978-84-16728-04-6
2. ↑ Heritage S. et al. 2016. Ancient phylogenetic divergence of the enigmatic African rodent Zenkerella and the origin of anomalurid gliding. PeerJ 4: e2320; doi: 10.7717 / peerj.2320