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Nesomyidae
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,
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21 genera with 61 species in 6 subfamilies:
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="0C592AD8793797D0839EFBCFAB563A04" authority="Roberts 1951" authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Cricetomyinae">
Cricetomyinae
<bibRefCitation id="514730E6A175F9415DAF1490C8CFDECD" author="Roberts, A." refId="ref306581" refString="Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of &quot; The mammals of South Africa &quot; book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp." year="1951">Roberts 1951</bibRefCitation>
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Genus
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<emphasis id="60C254604408483558F2CF408624D839" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Beamys</emphasis>
Thomas 1909
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(2 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="25CFC05EEA2B26C16E6D8A811EFD8FC9" authority="Waterhouse 1840" authorityName="Waterhouse" authorityYear="1840" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Cricetomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B08206878A41DDFBE37BCC4314DBCCA" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Cricetomys</emphasis>
Waterhouse 1840
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(4 species)
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<paragraph id="8FEDEBA5DFF90F2ABC001624F0DACB4C" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="D0BB4AC118EFF551C9216AAC709E9E81" authority="Peters 1846" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1846" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Saccostomus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="AF6D075098EB320E8C7706A30040941D" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Saccostomus</emphasis>
Peters 1846
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(2 species)
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="F6676F3D6EEC1E2392DD5939E2054EB2" pageNumber="930">Delanymyinae</taxonomicName>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="B0058D4ACF3F66DEB8FE4CFD23A935E6" authority="Hayman 1962" authorityName="Hayman" authorityYear="1962" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Delanymys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="32A7ED27FCDA9B84D8559578926BDAF2" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Delanymys</emphasis>
Hayman 1962
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(1 species)
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="6FF25A3E5E3503AA53B6C2CF480A3F5A" authority="G. M. Allen 1939" authorityName="G. M. Allen" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Dendromurinae">
Dendromurinae G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="CD4336341680E27DBC25066A8F8B49B5" author="Allen, G. M." refId="ref4894" refString="Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763." year="1939">Allen 1939</bibRefCitation>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="648F4BC64B9E2EA62635BD98E073572C" authority="Smith 1829" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1829" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5F751C641F63883C305DEF048992B39D" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Dendromus</emphasis>
Smith 1829
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(12 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="91C5D314F976E24D40C5A7B9FDA1D166" authority="F. Petter 1966" authorityName="F. Petter" authorityYear="1966" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendroprionomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="CB3F32CF98EF260535FF60B07C408254" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Dendroprionomys</emphasis>
F. Petter 1966
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(1 species)
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<paragraph id="9137D96CFFF2229DF1CD08DF747431F1" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="4AB9C7D3BFC4630A3574FD93418082DA" authority="Wagner 1843" authorityName="Wagner" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Malacothrix" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="55DC0BEB75E9BAA6A0C570C64AD0FA33" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Malacothrix</emphasis>
Wagner 1843
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(1 species)
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<paragraph id="3C20CA886E6C0A3EC43CC76FA0900C87" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="958F5D6008D0D174F44C18330D16A2D2" authority="Dieterlen and Rupp 1978" authorityName="Dieterlen and Rupp" authorityYear="1978" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Megadendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="618AA1524A3E237055C003A13D4C5F99" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Megadendromus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="B03EE5CD530DD90CC432C410E4AA0A29" author="Dieterlen, F. &amp; H. Rupp" refId="ref84895" refString="Dieterlen, F., and H. Rupp. 1978. Megadendromus nikolausi, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Dendromurinae; Rodentia), ein neuer Nager aus Athiopien. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 43: 129 - 143." year="1978">Dieterlen and Rupp 1978</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
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<paragraph id="8C95C647B8BBFAE2660AAC4F840D806B" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="AB421FE00311F3EC504786773C3995F7" authority="Dollman 1910" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1910" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Prionomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="EF050541347D09914F89E3EC75CA2DAF" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Prionomys</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="CE9757156C2CF4400FC0B520A5A7B85A" author="Dollman, G." refId="ref87495" refString="Dollman, G. 1910. Two new African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 6: 226 - 230." year="1910">Dollman 1910</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B13C5DFE924B6D20A9C2C0A20C736071" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="35F0C22FB078C39E626F2226CECDB411" authority="Peters 1846" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1846" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Steatomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E916F0499825BD96D4C7E7DE9EDA58B9" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Steatomys</emphasis>
Peters 1846
</taxonomicName>
(8 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B675AED652688C5727A26D0C857F2E73" pageNumber="930">
Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="281DF8C0ACFB0E0C7CE275DC557DF36D" authority="Vorontsov 1966" authorityName="Vorontsov" authorityYear="1966" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mystromyinae">
Mystromyinae
<bibRefCitation id="664E606CB2417FD125355508AB1EE73D" author="Vorontsov, N. N." refId="ref376694" refString="Vorontsov, N. N. 1966. [Taxonomic position and a survey of the hamsters of the genus Mystromys Wagn. (Mammalia, Glires).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 45: 436 - 446 (in Russian)." year="1966">Vorontsov 1966</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="9026CA0FBF61254989CCB11F38850F7C" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="07D238E7A07AA9B323A617B8F6492604" authority="Wagner 1841" authorityName="Wagner" authorityYear="1841" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Mystromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D557C393A7EBEE05AB4D9A1E1009FD81" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Mystromys</emphasis>
Wagner 1841
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(1 species)
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<paragraph id="DCC21EA8D19B5B39DEA6C3DE92DB90DB" pageNumber="930">
Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="5090F730F26B517A8D7D543463591DCE" authority="Major 1897" authorityName="Major" authorityYear="1897" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nesomyinae">
Nesomyinae
<bibRefCitation id="6DA36F31A7ECDFB5AFDC7FB19F448CF4" author="Major, C. I. F." refId="ref222613" refString="Major, C. I. F. 1897. On the Malagasy rodent genus Brachyuromys; and on the mutual relations of some groups of the Muridae (Hesperomyinae, Microtinae, Murinae, and &quot; Spalacidae &quot;) with each other and with the Malagasy Nesomyinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897: 695 - 720." year="1897">Major 1897</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="DCF5753F3E620E24AD35C2D4F13A3BE4" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="1F89EAABFFE537DC8338E3942CD89EBF" authority="Günther 1875" authorityName="Günther" authorityYear="1875" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Brachytarsomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C45B0E7B2469309974F91044558EF8EA" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Brachytarsomys</emphasis>
Günther 1875
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(2 species)
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<paragraph id="4D81285BE90B8C064B251A1AA3AA6300" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="B591EE5BC6F4C81E102A6BCF6CE87E65" authority="Major 1896" authorityName="Major" authorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Brachyuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A3D210304385AC7092DA6815D3DABBCB" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Brachyuromys</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="80C3C8280B2CAE1CD9A00243DD51814B" author="Major, C. I. F." refId="ref222579" refString="Major, C. I. F. 1896. Diagnoses of new mammals from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 18: 319 - 325." year="1896">Major 1896</bibRefCitation>
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(2 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D669560FFF47867B7E84BD661E3ED0AA" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="7AB45534B454D8F15AB63FE8EADDB229" authority="Milne Edwards 1885" authorityName="Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1885" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Eliurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5639A346466D7A0145453944841A76C0" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Eliurus</emphasis>
Milne Edwards 1885
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(10 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1A543ED755FD6C499E2F6763AAC4BB55" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="176DE84702F3C94F283225117950569E" authority="Major 1896" authorityName="Major" authorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Gymnuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D3B06779229BB4F9C78FC3B399CC6574" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Gymnuromys</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="B621D559FFA475CCB4D1FDA134D11E2C" author="Major, C. I. F." refId="ref222579" refString="Major, C. I. F. 1896. Diagnoses of new mammals from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 18: 319 - 325." year="1896">Major 1896</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="86B1A7381008FCD1D0B27F2E1694C980" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="E7E45219E6E39D800379E51580C5EB6C" authority="A. Grandidier 1869" authorityName="A. Grandidier" authorityYear="1869" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Hypogeomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="EAD87D2875C59D9159B8423C975D4077" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Hypogeomys</emphasis>
A. Grandidier 1869
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(1 species)
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<paragraph id="95E0C90184F5C3E0A6BD8C58B73B5573" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="85B26D398F933784B9FB1CDE5EE718BE" authority="Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier 1898" authorityName="Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier" authorityYear="1898" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Macrotarsomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="42D0D8DFA4ECAB4E21F93DB0C2D75460" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Macrotarsomys</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier 1898
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(2 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3A07C5B96A8402FBB63CD70B0108758B" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="650AC791E7813363E7250515809C543A" authority="Carleton and Goodman 1996" authorityName="Carleton and Goodman" authorityYear="1996" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Monticolomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4130EBEAB5138436BA85AB3FAD9BB1CC" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Monticolomys</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4143E1E0A332B84F08E5D7CF0A2FEF21" author="Carleton, M. D. &amp; S. M. Goodman" refId="ref51718" refString="Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 1996. Systematic studies of Madagascar's endemic rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): A new genus and species from the Central Highlands. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 85: 231 - 256." year="1996">Carleton and Goodman 1996</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(1 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66D059FAFFA3BF888AB76307E397BA48" pageNumber="930">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="8A57AF12D9B2C5129267EA35E379A4F4" authority="Peters 1870" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1870" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Nesomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="930" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E7A9F158B5D06B9835920C6934C07B00" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Nesomys</emphasis>
Peters 1870
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(3 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="40AA7CD4A1D2AAA793DBD36E2EAD24E7" pageNumber="930">
Genus
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<emphasis id="DD6569F35037887F460B75E57DDAB55D" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Voalavo</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="341F874F9827A4BB8162507473E72636" author="Carleton, M. D. &amp; S. M. Goodman" refId="ref51771" refString="Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 1998. New taxa of nesomyine rodents (Muroidea: Muridae) from Madagascar's northern highlands, with taxonomic comments on previously described forms. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 90: 163 - 200." year="1998">Carleton and Goodman 1998</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
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Subfamily
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Petromyscinae
<bibRefCitation id="DF521B955ACD01003266CC08A23B3DE8" author="Roberts, A." refId="ref306581" refString="Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of &quot; The mammals of South Africa &quot; book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp." year="1951">Roberts 1951</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="506304F8DEC0696BF7A70A382A551DF3" pageNumber="930">
Genus
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<emphasis id="5F9EEFBE90B187FB27BA26866198AFF6" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Petromyscus</emphasis>
Thomas 1926
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(4 species)
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<paragraph id="4A5C637C062A4929FC7E558B6F02C48B" pageNumber="930">
<emphasis id="6010CED397535EA0D6CFE7B84BF22990" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="930">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="44CEA0CF820304BEC84B822E790C2475" pageNumber="930">
Although a
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per se had been earlier recognized by
<bibRefCitation id="49C5A18A8A1D4D04A281107C154EC8E6" author="Tullberg, T." refId="ref360768" refString="Tullberg, T. 1899. Uber das system der Nagetiere. Eine phylogenetische studie. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarium Upsaliensis, Ser. 3, 18: 1 - 514." year="1899">Tullberg (1899)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="F8991991A5C213F40DD17D61E408F1CC" author="Weber, M." refId="ref385811" refString="Weber, M. 1904. Die saugetiere. Einfuhrung in die anatomie und systematik der recenten und fossilen Mammalia. G. Fischer, Jena, xi + 866 pp." year="1904">Weber (1904)</bibRefCitation>
, and later
<bibRefCitation id="C86192F525CCB59B629140D69C279628" author="Chaline, J. &amp; P. Mein &amp; F. Petter" refId="ref57068" refString="Chaline, J., P. Mein, and F. Petter. 1977. Les grandes lignes d'une classification evolutive des Muroidea. Mammalia, 41: 245 - 252." year="1977">Chaline et al. (1977)</bibRefCitation>
, theirs was essentially a grouping of the indigenous Malagasy rodents as already identified by
<bibRefCitation id="E8FD09F33ABCAEA88B8E29D612533971" author="Major, C. I. F." refId="ref222613" refString="Major, C. I. F. 1897. On the Malagasy rodent genus Brachyuromys; and on the mutual relations of some groups of the Muridae (Hesperomyinae, Microtinae, Murinae, and &quot; Spalacidae &quot;) with each other and with the Malagasy Nesomyinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897: 695 - 720." year="1897">Major (1897</bibRefCitation>
; Chaline et al. also included the otomyines, a clade clearly allied with murids—see those accounts). Although differing in contents, the family composition observed here owes its conceptual roots to
<bibRefCitation id="25BAF193F6BF8C1EF9347F99CF3345BA" author="Lavocat, R." refId="ref205495" refString="Lavocat, R. 1973. Les rongeurs du Miocene d'Afrique Orientale. Memoires et Travaux de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut de Montpellier, 1: 1 - 284." year="1973">Lavocat (1973</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="836943BA1B474376FE26B521A4BD3144" author="Lavocat, R." refId="ref205553" refString="Lavocat, R. 1978. Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Pp. 69 - 89, in Evolution of African mammals (V. J. Maglio and H. B. S. Cooke, eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 641 pp." year="1978">1978</bibRefCitation>
), who identified a number of small but morphologically well-defined groups as relicts of a middle Tertiary (late Oligocene-early Miocene?) cricetodontine presence in Africa and expanded the definition of
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to embrace their diverse descendants (also see
<bibRefCitation id="E6A3152948589E1A8093E7405D4A2949" author="Carleton, M. D. &amp; G. G. Musser" refId="ref52182" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp." year="1984">Carleton and Musser, 1984:344</bibRefCitation>
). The results of DNA hybridization and mitochondrial and nuclear gene-sequence studies, although not wholly concordant, have supplied some empirical basis for Lavocats view of
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, associating
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,
<taxonomicName id="3CC580ACC5C1B1DE0DDBA0843AC9A603" authorityName="G. M. Allen" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Dendromurinae">Dendromurinae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="5A3BD6CF27CB797406BAC1174B69E672" authorityName="Vorontsov" authorityYear="1966" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mystromyinae">Mystromyinae</taxonomicName>
, and
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in a monophyletic lineage basal to other muroid taxa representing
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and
<taxonomicName id="CA5F0C8102D1659F4DD15A4CDBC1C637" authorityName="Illiger" authorityYear="1811" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Muridae</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="17D5DCCF2C40B86919365645BDEA91D8" author="Dubois, J. - Y. &amp; D. Rakotondravony &amp; C. Hanni &amp; P. Sourouille &amp; F. M. Catzeflis" refId="ref88889" refString="Dubois, J. - Y., D. Rakotondravony, C. Hanni, P. Sourouille, and F. M. Catzeflis. 1996. Molecular evolutionary relationships of three genera of Nesomyinae, endemic rodent taxa from Madagascar. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 3: 239 - 259." year="1996">DuBois et al., 1996</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5786EE2D1E56C1C8965FA7ABA3ED729B" author="Jansa, S. A. &amp; S. M. Goodman &amp; P. K. Tucker" refId="ref172368" refString="Jansa, S. A., S. M. Goodman, and P. K. Tucker. 1999. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the native rodents of Madagascar (Muridae: Nesomyinae): A test of the single-origin hypothesis. Cladistics, 15: 253 - 270." year="1999">Jansa et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EE08447B43C259A9E55411EC9EF0A581" author="Michaux, J. &amp; F. Catzeflis" refId="ref240457" refString="Michaux, J., and F. Catzeflis. 2000. The bushlike radiation of muroid rodents is exemplified by the molecular phylogeny of the LCAT nuclear gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 17: 280 - 293." year="2000">Michaux and Catzeflis, 2000</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="885EB4CD2BB92C7372C17C5E0820D923" author="Michaux, J. &amp; A. Reyes &amp; F. Catzeflis" refId="ref240856" refString="Michaux, J., A. Reyes, and F. Catzeflis. 2001 b. Evolutionary history of the most speciose mammals: Molecular phylogeny of muroid rodents. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18 (11): 2017 - 2031." year="2001">
Michaux et al., 2001
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).
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<paragraph id="D0B94460FBBC862F3624901730C90D85" pageNumber="930">
Fossil representatives of
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, as construed here, date from the early Miocene of Africa (see individual subfamily comments), with extinct taxa such as
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<emphasis id="ACBF2D666BA2FFBFC1C61B8F1D663DB7" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Notocricetodon</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="0817DB7A15C3E7C451ED207585F73EF2" italics="true" pageNumber="930">Protarsomys</emphasis>
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(Afrocricetodontinae
<emphasis id="82DF708D9324105328586BAAFC34907E" italics="true" pageNumber="930">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="E65AAF7ACD0524BDC4B0F94570746287" author="Lavocat, R." refId="ref205495" refString="Lavocat, R. 1973. Les rongeurs du Miocene d'Afrique Orientale. Memoires et Travaux de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut de Montpellier, 1: 1 - 284." year="1973">Lavocat, 1973</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="788E8EF7652443D133764E148B466F47" author="Lavocat, R." refId="ref205553" refString="Lavocat, R. 1978. Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Pp. 69 - 89, in Evolution of African mammals (V. J. Maglio and H. B. S. Cooke, eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 641 pp." year="1978">1978</bibRefCitation>
) variously implicated in the origin of several of the living genera and-or subfamilies. The paleontological argument for such phyletic links remains sketchy and the hard evidence from critical middle Tertiary beds is scanty. Such Tertiary discoveries nonetheless continue to emerge from Africa and will help much to illuminate the validity of a family
<taxonomicName id="EA1F81026603F09D139521633A58D1C7" authorityName="Major" authorityYear="1897" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Nesomyidae</taxonomicName>
upon their critical study. The alternative possibility obviously demands attention: do the subfamilies associated here form a polyphyletic wastebasket for the remnants of early evolutionary branches within other major radiations of Muroidea, by implication
<taxonomicName id="D5D411FFE3A2A70FA6693AC52BEBB631" authorityName="Fischer" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Cricetidae</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName id="3565D9D1F462F3461CCA2F1A20BA54CC" authorityName="Illiger" authorityYear="1811" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Muridae</taxonomicName>
? This is the considered view of
<bibRefCitation id="FFEB0CE9B5294068F9F4BD69DFCBCCBC" author="Tong, H. &amp; J. - J. Jaeger" refId="ref357989" refString="Tong, H., and J. - J. Jaeger. 1993. Muroid rodents from the Middle Miocene Fort Ternan locality (Kenya) and their contribution to the phylogeny of muroids. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Palaozoologie-Stratigraphie, 229 (1 - 3): 51 - 73." year="1993">Tong and Jaeger (1993:56)</bibRefCitation>
regarding Lavocats expansive concept of
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. Mustering evidence to tease apart these hypotheses will require denser taxonomic sampling in molecular studies and broader appeal to organ systems other than the dentition in morphological investigations
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.
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