Taxonomy Profile: Eliurus (Milne-Edwards 1885)

Eliurus: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Genus
Synonym(s):
Common Name(s):
Tufted-tailed Rats []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Eliurus: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Tetrapoda
Class : Mammalia
mammals |
mamífero |
mammifères |
Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Eutheria
Order : Rodentia
rodents |
esquilo |
preá |
rato |
roedor |
rongeurs |
Suborder : Myomorpha
Mice |
Rats |
Rats |
souris |
Voles |
Gerbils |
Hamsters |
Lemmings |
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Nesomyidae
Subfamily : Nesomyinae
Genus : Eliurus
Tufted-tailed Rats |
Eliurus Direct Children(s):
Eliurus majori
(Thomas 1895)
Eliurus minor
(Forsyth Major 1896)
Eliurus myoxinus
(Milne-Edwards 1885)
Eliurus penicillatus
(Thomas 1908)
Eliurus tanala
(Forsyth Major 1896)
Eliurus webbi
(Ellerman 1949)
Eliurus antsingy
(Carleton Goodman and Rakotondravony 2001)
Eliurus ellermani
(Carleton 1994)
Eliurus grandidieri
(Carleton and Goodman 1998)
Eliurus petteri
(Carleton 1994)
Eliurus danieli
(Carleton and Goodman 2007)
Eliurus: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Guy G. Musser
Notes:
Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Eliurus
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Eliurus
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Eliurus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Eliurus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Carleton, Michael D., and David F. Schmidt
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1990-10-25 / 1990-10-25
Article/Chapter Title:
Systematic Studies of Madagascar's Endemic Rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): an Annotated Gazetteer of Collecting Localities of Known Forms
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 2987
Page(s):
1-36
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0082
Notes:
Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5074
Reference for:
Eliurus
Eliurus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Eliurus: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Genus arrayed as a monotypic tribe within Murinae by Ellerman (1941), an affinity confuted by molecular data (Dubois et al., 1996; Jansa et al., 1999). Ellerman (1949) set the precedent for recognizing only two species, the large polytypic E. myoxinus and the small monotypic E. minor, an arrangement later followed by F. Petter (1972c, 1975a) and others (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Honacki et al., 1982). Revised by Carleton (1994), who recognized 8 species and summarized their morphological ident...