Pedetidae
| Pedetidae Temporal range: Early Miocene to Recent
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The Pedetidae are a family of mammals from the rodent order.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[9] Fossils have been found as far north as Turkey.[10] Together with the anomalures, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha. The fossil genus Parapedetes is also related.[10]
Taxonomy
The family includes one living genus and three extinct genera. The Asian fossil Diatomys was previously included,[10] but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat.
- Family Pedetidae
- Genus Pedetes[11]
- South African springhare, Pedetes capensis
- East African springhare, Pedetes Surdaster
- †Pedetes Laetoliensis
- †Pedetes Hagenstadti
- †Pedetes Gracilis
- Genus †Megapedetes[11]
- Genus †Oldrichpedetes[11]
- Genus †Propedetes
- Genus †Rusingapedetes[11]
- Genus Pedetes[11]
References
- ^ http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=104243
- ^ http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=573169Z
- ^ http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=2476920
- ^ http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010/browse/tree/id/2243150
- ^ http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=69-1873
- ^ http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=648072
- ^ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pedetidae.html
- ^ http://www.eol.org/pages/8701
- ^ http://data.gbif.org/species/13149100
- ^ a b c McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)
- ^ a b c d M. Pickford and P. Mein (2011). "New Pedetidae (Rodentia: Mammalia) from the Mio-Pliocene of Africa". Estudios Geológicos. 67 (2): 455–469. doi:10.3989/egeol.40714.202.
Further reading
- Incisor enamel microstructure and phylogenetic interrelationships of Pedetidae and Ctenodactyloidea (Rodentia).
- Einiges zur Haltung und Zucht Hornchenartiger (Sciuromorpha) im Zoologischen Garten.
- Postcranial morphology and springing adaptations in Pedetidae from Arrisdrift, Middle Miocene (Namibia).
- Pelvic shape in gliding rodents: implications for the launch.
- Tracking genome organization in rodents by Zoo-FISH.
- Feldhamer, G. A., L. C. Drickamer, S. H. Vessey, and J. F. Merritt. 1999. Mammalogy. Adaptation, Diversity, and Ecology. WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston. xii+563pp.
- McLaughlin, C. A. 1984. Protrogomorph, sciuromorph, castorimorph, myomorph (geomyoid, anomaluroid, pedetoid, and ctenodactyloid) rodents. Pp. 267-288 in Anderson, S. and J. K. Jones, Jr. (eds). Orders and Families of Recent Mammals of the World. John Wiley and Sons, N.Y. xii+686 pp.
- Paradiso, J. L. 1975. Walker's Mammals of the World, Third Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Savage, R. J. G. and M. R. Long. 1986. Mammal Evolution, an Illustrated Guide. Facts of File Publications, New York. 259 pp.
- Vaughan, T. A. 1986. Mammalogy. Third Edition. Saunders College Publishing, Fort Worth. vii+576 pp.
- Vaughan, T. A., J. M. Ryan, N. J. Czaplewski. 2000. Mammalogy. Fourth Edition. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia. vii+565pp.
- Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 2nd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. xviii+1206 pp.