Ondatra Link 1795

Wilison, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1033

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Ondatra Link 1795

Ondatra Link 1795 , Beytr. Naturg., 1 (2): 76.

Type Species: Castor zibethicus Linnaeus 1766

Synonyms: Fiber G. Cuvier 1800 ; Moschomys Billberg 1827 ; Mussacus Oken 1816 ; Neondatra Hibbard 1937 ; Pliopotamys Wilson 1933 ; Simotes Fischer 1817 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Ondatra zibethicus ( Linnaeus 1766)

Discussion: Ondatrini. Assigned either as sole tribal member ( Hooper and Hart, 1962; Koenigswald, 1980) or with Neofiber ( Chaline and Mein, 1979; Repenning et al., 1990); or placed in subtribe Ondatrina, Arvicolini ( Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) . Based on allozymic analysis, Mezhzherin et al. (1995) recognized Ondatrini as the first group to have diverged from the basal arvicoline stock during the late Miocene. Evidence from fossil history and morphology indicates that the two genera of "muskrats" are more distantly related than their inclusion in the same tribe would connote ( Carleton, 1981; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Koenigswald, 1980; R. A. Martin, 1975, 1979); analysis of long interspersed nucleotide elements, on the other hand, unites Ondatra and Neofiber as sister genera ( Modi, 1996). Originated from the Pliocene form Pliopotamys minor ( Eshelman, 1975; Zakrzewski, 1974); Pliocene-Pleistocene changes in dentition and size ("chronomorphs") leading to extant species are traced by R. A. Martin (1996), who reallocated Pliopotamys as junior synonym.

References

Carleton, M. D. 1981. A survey of gross stomach morphology in Microtinae (Rodentia, Muroidea). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 46: 93 - 108.

Chaline, J., and P. Mein. 1979. Les rongeurs et l'evolution. Doin Editeurs, Paris, 235 pp.

Eshelman, R. E. 1975. Geology and paleontology of the Early Pleistocene (Late Blancan) White Rock Fauna from north-central Kansas. University of Michigan, Museum of Paleontology, Papers on Paleontology, 13: 1 - 60.

Hooper, E. T., and B. S. Hart. 1962. A synopsis of Recent North American microtine rodents. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 120: 1 - 68.

Koenigswald, W. von. 1980. Schmelzstruktur und Morphologie in den Molaren der Arvicolidae (Rodentia). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 539: 1 - 129.

Linnaeus, C. 1766 - 1768. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Regnum Animale. pt. 1, pp. 1 - 532 [1766]; vol. 3, Appendix pp. 223 - 235 [1768]. 12 th ed. [Vol. 3, Regnum Lapideum, pp. 1 - 222, rejected for nomenclatural purposes, ICZN, opinion 296]. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 3 vols.

Martin, L. D. 1975. Microtine rodents from the Ogallala Pliocene of Nebraska and the early evolution of the Microtinae in North America. Papers on Paleontology, The Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan, 12: 101 - 110.

Martin, R. A. 1996. Dental evolution and size change in the North American muskrat: Classification and tempo of a presumed phyletic sequence. Pp. 431 - 457, in Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic mammals: Tributes to the career of C. S. (Rufus) Churcher (K. M. Stewart and K. L. Seymour, eds.). University of Toronto Press, Toronto, xxxi + 675 pp.

Mezhzherin, S. V., S. Yu. Morozov-Leonov, and I. A. Kuznetsova. 1995. [Biochemical variation and genetic divergence in Palearctic voles (Arvicolidae): Subgenus Terricola, true lemmings Lemmus Link 1975, pied lemmings Dicrostonyx Gloger 1841, steppe lemmings Lagurus Gloger 1842, mole voles Ellobius Fischeer von Waldheim 1814.] Genetika, 31 (6): 788 - 797 (in Russian with English summary).

Modi, W. S. 1996. Phylogenetic history of LINE- 1 among arvicolid rodents. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13: 633 - 641.

Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian).

Repenning, C. A., O. Fejfar, and W. - D. Heinrich. 1990. Arvicolid rodent biochronology of the Northern Hemisphere. Pp. 385 - 417, in International symposium evolution, phylogeny and biostratigraphy of arvicolids (Rodentia, Mammalia) (O. Fejfar and W. - D. Heinrich, eds.). Geological Survey, Prague, 448 pp.

Zakrzewski, R. J. 1974. Fossil Ondatrini from western North America. Journal of Mammalogy, 55: 284 - 292.