Arvicanthini

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Arvicanthini
Temporal range: Late Miocene - present, 7–0  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Lecompte et al., 2008
Genera

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Arvicanthini is a tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. Almost all recent species in this tribe are or were found in Africa aside from one species, the Indian bush rat (Golunda ellioti), which is found in South Asia and Iran. However, some fossil Golunda species from India and the genus Parapelomys (known to have inhabited Arabia and Pakistan) are thought to have also occurred outside Africa, and one species in the fossil genus Saidomys may have also occurred in Afghanistan. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The genus Canariomys inhabited the Canary Islands until being driven to extinction by early human settlers. [4]

Species

Extant species

Species in the tribe include: [1] [5] [6]

Fossil genera


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Murinae</span> Subfamily of rodents

The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families except the Cricetidae and Muridae, and is larger than all mammal orders except the bats and the remainder of the rodents.

References

  1. 1 2 Denys, Christiane; Lecompte, Emilie; Taylor, P. J. (21 July 2017). "Diagnoses and contents of new African and Eurasian Murinae (Rodentia, Muridae) tribes" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-12-08.
  2. ↑ Lecompte, Emilie; Aplin, Ken; Denys, Christiane; Catzeflis, François; Chades, Marion; Chevret, Pascale (2008-07-10). "Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8 (1): 199. Bibcode:2008BMCEE...8..199L. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-199 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   2490707 . PMID   18616808.
  3. 1 2 Terry., Harrison (2013). Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania : a Window into the Evolutionary History of East Africa. Springer. ISBN   978-1-4757-2683-1. OCLC   1066178823.
  4. ↑ Michaux, Jacques; Hautier, Lionel; Hutterer, Rainer; Lebrun, Renaud; Guy, Franck; García-Talavera, Francisco (2012-10-01). "Body shape and life style of the extinct rodent Canariomys bravoi (Mammalia, Murinae) from Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (7): 485–494. Bibcode:2012CRPal..11..485M. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.004. ISSN   1631-0683.
  5. ↑ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212 , retrieved 2021-12-07
  6. ↑ Pagès, Marie; Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Chaval, Yannick; Mortelliti, Alessio; Nicolas, Violaine; Wells, Konstans; Michaux, Johan R.; Lazzari, Vincent (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of South-East Asian arboreal murine rodents". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (4): 349–364. doi:10.1111/zsc.12161. hdl: 10072/101842 . ISSN   1463-6409. S2CID   86285898.
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