Muscardinus Kaup, 1829

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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Muscardinus Kaup, 1829 . Skizz. Entwikel.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, 1:139.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus avellanarius Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Muscardinulus (see Thaler, 1966).

COMMENTS: Kratochvil (1973) proposed to place Muscardinus in its own subfamily, Muscardininae, based on the uniquely derived stomach anatomy, molar morphology, and phallic features. De Bruijn (1967) and Daams (1981) both included Muscardinus in the Myoxinae based on dental morphology. This arrangement was supported by the results of Wahlert et al. (In Press). Muscardinus appears to be most closely related to Myoxus (Wahlert et al., In Press). See also comment under Myoxinae .

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.

Kratochvil, J. 1973. Mannliche Sexualorgane und System der Gliridae (Rodentia). Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Academiae Scientarium Bohemoslovacea (Brno), 7: 1 - 52.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Thaler, L. 1966. Les rongeurs fossiles du Bas-Languedoc dans leur rapports avec l'histoire des faunes et la stratigraphie du Tertiaire d'Europe. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie C, 17: 1 - 295.