Castorimorpha

Castorimorpha; Temporal range: Early Eocene to Recent
	Ord's kangaroo rat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Castorimorpha; Wood, 1955
Extant families
	Superfamily Castoroidea: Castoridae; Superfamily Geomyoidea: Heteromyidae; Geomyidae;

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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[Doronina_2017-1] 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.

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