Selevinia Belosludov and Bazhanov, 1939

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 768

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Selevinia Belosludov and Bazhanov, 1939 . Uchen. Zap. Kaz. Univ. Alma-Ata, 1 (1):81.

TYPE SPECIES: Selevinia betpakdalaensis Belosludov and Bazhanov, 1939 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Myomimini . Belosludov and Bazhanov (1939) recognized Selevinia as a new genus of murids, and then as a separate family of rodents seemingly allied to myoxids ( Bazhanov and Belosludov, 1941). Based on a suite of morphological characters, Ognev (1947) hypothesized that Selevinia was a highly differentiated dormouse most closely related to Myomimus . Beacuse of its distinct dental formula and structure, Ognev (1947) listed Selevinia in a separate subfamily, a hypothesis independantly suggested by Ellerman (1949a). Published descriptions and figures of Selevinia included derived character states that allowed Wahlert et al. (In Press) to place this genus within Myomimini, supporting Ognev's (1947) hypothesis. Though the nearest extant relative of Selevinia is proposed to be Myomimus, Plioselevinia, a fossil genus known from Lower Pliocene breccia of Poland, may be the closest relative of this genus.

References

Bazhanov, V. S., and B. A. Belosludov. 1941. A remarkable family of rodents from Kasakhstan, USSR. Journal of Mammalogy, 22 (3): 311 - 315.

Belosludov, B. A., and V. S. Bazhanov. 1939. [A new genus and species of rodent from the central Kazakhstan (USSR)]. Uchenye Zapiski Kazakhskovo Gosudarstvennovo Universiteta, Alma-Ata, 1 (1): 81 - 86 (in Russian).

Ellerman, J. R. 1949 a. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. III, Appendix II [Notes on the rodents from Madagascar in the British Museum, and on a collection from the island obtained by Mr. C. S. Webb]. British Museum (Natural History), London, 210 pp.

Ognev, S. I. 1947. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 5: 1 - 809 (in Russian).