Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae
Author
Mary Ellen Holden
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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Glirulus
Thomas, 1906
.
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(2):347
[1906].
TYPE SPECIES:
Myoxus javanicus
Schinz, 1845
(=
lapsus
for
japonicus
;
see Thomas (1905«) for an explanation of the emendation of
javanicus
to
japonicus
.
SYNONYMS:
Amphidyromys, Paraglirulus
(see
van der Meulen and de Bruijn, 1982
).
COMMENTS:
De Bruijn (1967)
placed
Glirulus
and related fossil genera in their own subfamily based on dental characters.
Daams (1981)
included these genera in the Dryomyinae (= Leithiinae), as did
van der Meulen and de Bruijn (1982)
. However, the phylogenetic study by Wahlert et al. (In Press) supported the inclusion of
Glirulus
within the
Myoxinae
(see also comment under
Myoxinae
).
Glirulus
appears to be the sister group of
Myoxus
and
Muscardinus
(Wahlert et al., In Press).