Glirulus Thomas, 1906

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 : 769

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Glirulus Thomas, 1906 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(2):347 [1906].

TYPE SPECIES: Myoxus javanicus Schinz, 1845 (= lapsus for japonicus ; see Thomas (1905«) for an explanation of the emendation of javanicus to japonicus .

SYNONYMS: Amphidyromys, Paraglirulus (see van der Meulen and de Bruijn, 1982).

COMMENTS: De Bruijn (1967) placed Glirulus and related fossil genera in their own subfamily based on dental characters. Daams (1981) included these genera in the Dryomyinae (= Leithiinae), as did van der Meulen and de Bruijn (1982). However, the phylogenetic study by Wahlert et al. (In Press) supported the inclusion of Glirulus within the Myoxinae (see also comment under Myoxinae ). Glirulus appears to be the sister group of Myoxus and Muscardinus (Wahlert et al., In Press).

References

Daams, R. 1981. The dental pattern of the dormice Dryomys, Myomimus, Microdyromys and Peridyromys. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, Special Publication, 3: 1 - 115.

de Bruijn, H. 1967. Gliridae, Sciuridae y Eomyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) miocenos de Calatayud (provincia de Zaragoza, Espana) y su relacion con la biostratigrafia del area. Boletin del Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espane, 78: 187 - 373.

van der Meulen, A. J., and H. de Bruijn. 1982. The mammals from the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part 2. The Gliridae. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, ser. B, 85 (4): 485 - 524.