Rhizomys Gray 1831
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Rhizomys Gray 1831 View in CoL
Rhizomys Gray 1831 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831: 95.
Type Species: Rhizomys sinensis Gray 1831
Synonyms: Brachyrhizomys Teilhard de Chardin 1942 ; Nyctocleptes Temminck 1832 .
Species and subspecies: 3 species:
Species Rhizomys pruinosus Blyth 1851
Species Rhizomys sinensis Gray 1831
Species Rhizomys sumatrensis ( Raffles 1821)
Discussion: Anatomy of gastrointestinal tract and comparisons with other muroids provided by Vorontsov (1979); cranium and dentition figured by Ellerman (1940). Evolutionary history extends back to the very late Miocene (5.7 million years ago) in China ( Flynn, 1993). The extinct Chinese shansius, the genotype of Brachyrhizomys , is regarded as a species of Rhizomys with Brachyrhizomys conserved as a subgenus ( Flynn, 1990, 1993). Other extinct Pakistan and Indian species formally allocated to Brachyrhizomys ( Flynn, 1982 a, b) are rhizomyines, not tachyoryctines, that are morphologically more closely related to Rhizomys than to Cannomys and lack a generic name ( Flynn, 1990).
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Rhizomys Gray 1831
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005 |
Rhizomys
Gray 1831: 95 |