Castorimorpha

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Cladus: Cynodontia
Cladus: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Euarchontoglires
Ordo: Rodentiaa
Subordo: Castorimorpha

‎Classis: Mammalia
Ordo: Rodentiaa
Subordo: Castorimorpha
Familiae: Castoridae - Heteromyidae - Geomyidae
Name

Castorimorpha Wood, 1955
References

Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.

Vernacular names
magyar: Hódalkatúak

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 ^{[citation needed]}
    • Genus †Floresomys
    • Genus †Texomys
    • Genus †Jimomys
    • Genus †Diplolophus
    • Genus †Schizodontomys
    • Genus †Griphomys
    • Genus †Meliakrouniomys

† indicates extinct taxa.

References
Citations

Doronina, Liliya; Matzke, Andreas; Churakov, Gennady; Stoll, Monika; Huge, Andreas; Schmitz, Jürgen (3 March 2017). "The beaver's phylogenetic lineage illuminated by retroposon reads". Scientific Reports. 7 (1). doi:10.1038/srep43562. PMC 5335264.

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. ISBN 0-231-11013-8

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