Hystricomorpha

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Ordo: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohort: Theria
Cohort: Eutheria
Cohort: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Euarchontoglires
Ordo: Rodentia
Subordo: Hystricomorpha
Infraordines: Ctenodactylomorphi - Hystricognathi
Overview of familiae

Ctenodactylidae – Diatomyidae – †Gaudeamuridae – †Yuomyidae –
Name

Hystricomorpha
References
Vernacular names
Akan: Kotoko
català: Histricomorf
čeština: Dikobrazočelistní
Deutsch: Stachelschweinverwandte
eʋegbe: Kotoko
English: Hystricomorpha
español: Hystricomorpha
suomi: Piikkisikamaiset jyrsijät
français: Hystricomorpha
magyar: Sülalkatúak
italiano: Hystricomorpha
日本語: ヤマアラシ亜目
한국어: 호저아목
Nederlands: Hystricomorpha
polski: Hystricomorpha
português: Hystricomorpha
svenska: Piggsvinsartade gnagare
ไทย: อันดับย่อยเม่น
українська: Їжатцевиді
Tiếng Việt: Phân bộ Nhím lông
中文: 豪猪亚目

The term Hystricomorpha (from Greek ὕστριξ, hystrix 'porcupine' and Greek μορφή, morphē 'form')[2] has had many definitions throughout its history. In the broadest sense, it refers to any rodent (except dipodoids) with a hystricomorphous zygomasseteric system. This includes the Hystricognathi, Ctenodactylidae, 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
Cranium of a capybara showing the enlarged infraorbital canal present in most members of the Hystricomorpha: This condition is termed hystricomorphy.

The modern definition of Hystricomorpha, also known as Entodacrya or Ctenohystrica, is a taxonomic hypothesis uniting the gundis with the hystricognath rodents.[3] Considerable morphological and strong molecular support exists for this relationship. If true, this hypothesis renders the traditional view of Sciurognathi invalid, as it becomes a 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 South America in the Eocene,[7] a continent which previously had metatherians, xenarthrans, and meridiungulates as the only resident nonflying mammals . They apparently arrived by rafting across the Atlantic from Africa. The same type of migration may have occurred with 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 taxonomy of Marivaux et al. 2002 and Marivaux, Vianey-Liaud & Jaeger 2004, who subjected a number of early fossil rodents to parsimony analysis and recovered support for the Hystricomorpha or Entodacrya hypothesis. Their results rendered the suborder Sciuravida as defined by McKenna & Bell 1997 to be polyphyletic and invalid. The symbol "†" is used to indicate extinct groups.

• Suborder Hystricomorpha
  • Superfamily Ctenodactyloidea
    • Ctenodactylidae - gundis
    • †Tammquammyidae
    • Diatomyidae - Laotian rock rat
    • †Yuomyidae
    • †Chapattimyidae
  • Hystricognathiformes
    • †Tsaganomyidae
    • Hystricognathi - true hystricognaths
      • †Baluchimyinae
      • Hystricidae - Old World porcupines
      • Phiomorpha
        • †Myophiomyidae
        • †Diamantomyidae
        • †Phiomyidae
        • †Kenyamyidae
        • Petromuridae - dassie rat
        • Thryonomyidae - cane rats
        • Bathyergidae - blesmols
        • †Bathyergoididae
      • Caviomorpha - New World hystricognaths
        • Superfamily Erethizontoidea
          • Erethizontidae - New World porcupines
        • Superfamily Cavioidea
          • †Cephalomyidae
          • Dasyproctidae - agoutis and acouchis
          • Cuniculidae - pacas
          • †Eocardiidae
          • Dinomyidae - pacarana
          • Caviidae - cavies, capybaras, and guinea pigs
          • †Neoepiblemidae
        • Superfamily Octodontoidea
          • Octodontidae - degus and relatives
          • Ctenomyidae - tuco-tucos
          • Echimyidae - spiny rats
          • Myocastoridae - nutria
          • Capromyidae - hutias
          • †Heptaxodontidae - giant hutias
        • Superfamily Chinchilloidea
          • Chinchillidae - chinchillas and viscachas
          • Abrocomidae - chinchilla rats

Notes

Brandt 1855
"Hystricomorpha". Oxford Dictionaries. 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
Antoine, P.-O.; Marivaux, L.; Croft, D. A.; Billet, G.; Ganerod, M.; Jaramillo, C.; Martin, T.; Orliac, M. J.; et al. (2011). "Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1732): 1319–1326. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1732. PMC 3282368. PMID 21993503.

Bond, M.; Tejedor, M. F.; Campbell, K. E.; Chornogubsky, L.; Novo, N.; Goin, F. (2015-02-04). "Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys". Nature. 520: 538–41. doi:10.1038/nature14120. PMID 25652825.

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