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Mazology [sic]. Pp. 393-480, pls. 353-358, in:
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;
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Gliroidea
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;
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Leithiidae
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;
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Myosidae
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;
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Myoxina
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Myoxidae
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;
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;
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Myoxoidea
<bibRefCitation id="E2FFFABA9D09A32A269AE5AC2A13D3B6" author="Gill, T." refId="ref121299" refString="Gill, T. 1872. Arrangement of the families of mammals with analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 11: 1 - 98." year="1872">Gill 1872</bibRefCitation>
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;
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Seleviniidae Bashanov and
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.
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<emphasis id="FEABBEB76B6B3F78B0CD3E4675CF7637" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="819">Genera:</emphasis>
9 genera with 28 species in 3 subfamilies:
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="E05A2C3354B3CC9787501B3FF4E59144" authority="Winge 1887" authorityName="Winge" authorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Graphiurinae">
Graphiurinae
<bibRefCitation id="FE1BA1FED6931D8E985A0AF4EC80E425" author="Winge, H." refId="ref391444" refString="Winge, H. 1887. Jordfunde og nulevende Gnavere (Rodentia) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien: Med udsigt over gnavernes indbyrdes slagtskab. E Museo Lundii, 1 (3): 1 - 178." year="1887">Winge 1887</bibRefCitation>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="4FCF82A0E198183464A357F272F1E78E" authority="Smuts 1832" authorityName="Smuts" authorityYear="1832" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Graphiurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="31782DD4A89B46F370460331C3D3A4F0" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Graphiurus</emphasis>
Smuts 1832
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(14 species)
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="3FEC8E6E4E9DC13682AD319E0F3716CB" authority="Lydekker 1895" authorityName="Lydekker" authorityYear="1895" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Leithiinae">
Leithiinae
<bibRefCitation id="7C89958F38E6011678034BA67B433E78" author="Lydekker, R." refId="ref218762" refString="Lydekker, R. 1895 [1896]. On the affinities of the so-called extinct giant dormouse of Malta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1895: 860 - 863." year="1895">Lydekker 1895</bibRefCitation>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="A685F072AECE058888A71A23A2BE951A" authority="Wang 1985" authorityName="Wang" authorityYear="1985" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Chaetocauda" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B839B95826FD44F7EFD55FF772231BDF" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Chaetocauda</emphasis>
Wang 1985
</taxonomicName>
(1 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="3C68F1ABC73B6BEFFB5C2372197F95A7" authority="Thomas 1905" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1905" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Dryomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B1DD5FA02FFD9D8727609E579B3C0335" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Dryomys</emphasis>
Thomas 1905
</taxonomicName>
(3 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="B2045678F2CD6A281E007DB6027046D6" authority="Wagner 1840" authorityName="Wagner" authorityYear="1840" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Eliomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A0891A8B168DBD159E200BD88FCE53A5" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Eliomys</emphasis>
Wagner 1840
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(3 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="C6782336D4301CB21CBC4394D15CE71D" authority="Kaup 1829" authorityName="Kaup" authorityYear="1829" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Muscardinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="6ECCB933344E7DC6423F3D6F6E8AD110" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Muscardinus</emphasis>
Kaup 1829
</taxonomicName>
(1 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="A29B096F8EA8D48929825441F76F3E5F" authority="Ognev 1924" authorityName="Ognev" authorityYear="1924" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Myomimus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B5DD31F5A224F1CD08B5FE04EB5666E3" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Myomimus</emphasis>
Ognev 1924
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(3 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="B9C23002B90BCC48D8336A8CD5C82AE4" authority="Belosludov and Bazhanov 1939" authorityName="Belosludov and Bazhanov" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Selevinia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5CF8D94A6871FC458590ABF98B07C271" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Selevinia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="AD97B9C65496B2F1D937065A8E99D8ED" author="Belosludov, B. A. &amp; V. S. Bazhanov" refId="ref26858" refString="Belosludov, B. A., and V. S. Bazhanov. 1939. [A new genus and species of rodent from the central Kazakhstan (USSR)]. Uchenye Zapiski Kazakhskovo Gosudarstvennovo Universiteta, Alma-Ata, 1 (1): 81 - 86 (in Russian)." year="1939">Belosludov and Bazhanov 1939</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="1A742BF5C02B4B6DF347B711F38DFA4B" authority="Muirhead 1819" authorityName="Muirhead" authorityYear="1819" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Glirinae">
Glirinae
<bibRefCitation id="AC32AB95E2341E0CF1D9CA62156E1434" author="Muirhead, L." refId="ref249579" refString="Muirhead, L. 1819. Mazology. Pp. 393 - 486 [pls. 353 - 358], in The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, (D. Brewster, ed.). Fourth ed. William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 13: 1 - 744, pls. 347 - 371, 1830." year="1819">Muirhead 1819</bibRefCitation>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="89384ADAF863DBBE3654032ECF403807" authority="Thomas 1905" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1905" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glirulus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="6B0E802949DCF990055B46DDE4B320FB" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glirulus</emphasis>
Thomas 1905
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(1 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="F82EC2E03016F9FDD846C981195E7450" authority="Brisson 1762" authorityName="Brisson" authorityYear="1762" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="819" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="96BBADD69D17A00887D30D18CF3C21F7" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="297D985E69EEB48D3646204154BEF411" author="Brisson, M. J." refId="ref42298" refString="Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, &amp; duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet &amp; cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera &amp; species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp." year="1762">Brisson 1762</bibRefCitation>
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(1 species)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="75F9D838CA55C67E604057D80DCA1F60" pageNumber="819">
<emphasis id="9DBDBAB1E28B8A3ED423A842B4640D22" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="819">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="F45ED6B45F0157D5E07DE83B3E8C2882" pageNumber="819">
<bibRefCitation id="D8380DDD5801B6BD3F9924F07E3A82A4" author="Simpson, G. G." refId="ref328876" refString="Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350." year="1945">Simpson (1945)</bibRefCitation>
deemed
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Myoxidae
<bibRefCitation id="2591170B6EF30CF71E02F051CBF24936" author="Gray, J. E." refId="ref127912" refString="Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310." year="1821">Gray, 1821</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
invalid due to the apparent synonymy of the type genus
<taxonomicName id="87FDE27858E7FC9706DEB7AB94FD79F3" authority="Zimmermann, 1790" authorityName="Zimmermann" authorityYear="1790" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Myoxus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="93E8C476D5AF1FE6E9E620D44B58ABE5" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Myoxus</emphasis>
Zimmermann, 1790
</taxonomicName>
, with
<taxonomicName id="309211769E77516E4B0F21BC2ED9CC43" authority="Brisson, 1762" authorityName="Brisson" authorityYear="1762" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="11A79C9C50C0EBC8D47735C703F2F816" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="07DF38388F7A4BEA96FA119774E46F65" author="Brisson, M. J." refId="ref42298" refString="Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, &amp; duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet &amp; cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera &amp; species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp." year="1762">Brisson, 1762</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and used
<taxonomicName id="8ED4CF9C54363355ED18CCD924A5621B" authority="Thomas, 1896" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Gliridae
<bibRefCitation id="6C1937A828356790532D3BB68CD192C0" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref352089" refString="Thomas, O. 1896 [1897]. On the genera of rodents: An attempt to bring up to date the current arrangement of the order. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896: 1012 - 1028." year="1896">Thomas, 1896</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="532D237C0194EEA6CC62B31527C8D22F" author="Hopwood, A. T." refId="ref158852" refString="Hopwood, A. T. 1947. The generic names of the mandrill and baboons, with notes on some of the genera of Brisson, 1762. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 117: 533 - 536." year="1947">Hopwood (1947)</bibRefCitation>
argued that Brissons names are invalid because they are not Linnaean or binomial, and noted that
<taxonomicName id="71C4570FAFCDF6C8BCBFE071F888B0DC" authorityName="Brisson" authorityYear="1762" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="6A8A66A11754D595D9C6E09048E531C3" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is valid in
<bibRefCitation id="006CB0BB84956597DFBF2D1CE82AD9D1" author="Erxleben, J. C. P." refId="ref96470" refString="Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp." year="1777">Erxleben (1777)</bibRefCitation>
for marmots, ground-squirrels, voles, and lemmings, rendering
<taxonomicName id="54E8493015DA828D887B45FD36AF759F" authority="Storr, 1780" authorityName="Storr" authorityYear="1780" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E75C390607224B0EEE4892E1EB64A2A9" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="B2BBE2AD0D347D10452E995A7433F50F" author="Storr, G. C. C." refId="ref342030" refString="Storr, G. C. C. 1780. Prodromus methodi mammalium. Inaugeralem disputationem propositus praeside G. C. C. Storr. Respondente F. Wolffer Litteris Reissimis, Tubingae, 43 pp." year="1780">Storr, 1780</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(which included pedetids, dormice, and other rodents) invalid. Thus the oldest available name to replace
<taxonomicName id="23E252FE6A730A0AA1B3F91D416EE58F" authority="Brisson" authorityName="Brisson" authorityYear="1762" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="6112224C7CAA255711979BFEE83DCDFD" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
Brisson
</taxonomicName>
is
<taxonomicName id="755FAB5A600F22A7DC30F556676CEFA3" authority="Zimmerman" authorityName="Zimmermann" authorityYear="1790" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Myoxus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="45D224CF19CEA4A5214013DED089C0F4" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Myoxus</emphasis>
Zimmerman
</taxonomicName>
, valid in
<bibRefCitation id="4243E4F853BB6DC7D0C9BB5B2E3C4E14" author="Linnaeus, C." refId="ref214097" refString="Linnaeus, C. (revised by J. F. Gmelin). 1788. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. Vol. I. Regum Animale. Class 1, Mammalia. Thirteenth ed. (revised by J. F. Gmelin). G. E. Beir, Lipsiae, 232 pp." year="1788">Linnaeus (1788)</bibRefCitation>
for dormice, and, but for the ruling discussed below, the correct family name for dormice would be
<taxonomicName id="47D1496B46769289B19AAC417B3DC56A" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" family="Myoxidae" rank="family">Myoxidae</taxonomicName>
. Despite this clear historical evidence given in support of recognizing
<taxonomicName id="C517A7BA8440003B8C6A60F924167D60" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" family="Myoxidae" rank="family">Myoxidae</taxonomicName>
as the valid family name for dormice (see also
<bibRefCitation id="A4C6261D7A3FB8184F7E9369F14B8AFF" author="Wahlert, J. H. &amp; S. L. Sawitzke &amp; M. E. Holden" refId="ref380160" refString="Wahlert, J. H., S. L. Sawitzke, and M. E. Holden. 1993. Cranial anatomy and relationships of dormice (Rodentia, Myoxidae). American Museum Novitates, 3061: 1 - 32." year="1993">Wahlert et al., 1993</bibRefCitation>
), and despite the willingness of many dormouse experts to employ
<taxonomicName id="E4D6DD3B43BDDDFDEFB91748835593E1" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" family="Myoxidae" rank="family">Myoxidae</taxonomicName>
as the valid family name (Hutterer, 1996; and usage of
<taxonomicName id="444B6BAEC8CF0550955ADB2D3A89175E" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" family="Myoxidae" rank="family">Myoxidae</taxonomicName>
in Filippucci, 1995), the unfortunate ruling by the
<bibRefCitation id="CAD40B44D601E38A046A53D58199EA5D" author="International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature" refId="ref168225" refString="International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1998. Opinion 1894. Regnum Animals …, Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): Rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 55 (1): 64 - 71." year="1998">International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998)</bibRefCitation>
to conserve
<taxonomicName id="25DA14401F46BCA1071D71EA3D23AC46" authority="Brisson" authorityName="Brisson" authorityYear="1762" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="7F6DEB0115064C804A20DDFA4A4EA97D" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glis</emphasis>
Brisson
</taxonomicName>
requires that the valid family name for dormice is henceforth
<taxonomicName id="4DF3D00A2BC7A34FF08BFA44FDD8FFFA" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Gliridae</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E47B5C931D7EF23400658D3CD9A8268E" pageNumber="819">
Glirids are one of the oldest extant rodent families. They first appear as fossils in early Eocene deposits (
<bibRefCitation id="4F27815BBCFA6461DA988E4D19D74299" author="Daams, R." refId="ref72779" refString="Daams, R. 1999. Family Gliridae. Pp. 301 - 318, in The Miocene land mammals of Europe (G. E. Rossner and K. Heissig, eds.). Pfeil, Munchen, 515 pp." year="1999">Daams, 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1F5B464A2583761A7CDF284B2E829F72" author="Daams, R. &amp; H. De Bruijn" refId="ref72823" refString="Daams, R., and H. De Bruijn. 1995. A classification of the Gliridae (Rodentia) on the basis of dental morphology. Pp. 3 - 50, in Proceedings of II Conference on Dormice (Rodentia, Myoxidae) (M. G. Filippucci, ed.). Hystrix, n. s., 6 (1 - 2): 1 - 340." year="1995">Daams and De Bruijn, 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5747624C238ECEB7118BB52D493AD248" author="Uhlig, U." refId="ref361475" refString="Uhlig, U. 2001. The Gliridae (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (MP 24) of Groben 3 in the folded molasse of southern Germany. Paleovertebrata, 30 (3 - 4): 151 - 187." year="2001">Uhlig, 2001</bibRefCitation>
), suggesting a late Paleocene-early Eocene origin (
<bibRefCitation id="CD5DA1E7D2DBBA73C9AB7104F4065BB4" author="Hartenberger, J. - L." refId="ref141810" refString="Hartenberger, J. - L. 1994. The evolution of the Gliroidea. Pp. 19 - 33, in Rodent and Lagomorph Families of Asian Origins and Diversification (Y. Tomida, C. k. Li and T. Setoguchi, eds.). National Science Museum Monographs, No. 8, Tokyo, 195 pp." year="1994">Hartenberger 1994</bibRefCitation>
, 1998), which is concordant with the most recent molecular dating estimate based upon combined markers (
<bibRefCitation id="EE43F51F616DF0CA7555A9DAE9B63186" author="Adkins, R. M. &amp; A. H. Walton &amp; R. L. Honeycutt" refId="ref1406" refString="Adkins, R. M., A. H. Walton, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2003. High-level systematics of rodents and divergence time estimates based on two congruent nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 26 (3): 409 - 420." year="2003">Adkins et al., 2003</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="B1F59DB36A4A7045723C7D78E84B5784" author="Huchon, D. &amp; O. Madsen &amp; M. J. J. B. Sibbald &amp; K. Ament &amp; M. J. Stanhope &amp; F. Catzeflis &amp; W. W. de Jong &amp; E. J. P. Douzery" refId="ref160779" refString="Huchon, D., O. Madsen, M. J. J. B. Sibbald, K. Ament, M. J. Stanhope, F. Catzeflis, W. W. de Jong, and E. J. P. Douzery. 2002. Rodent phylogeny and a timescale for the evolution of Glires: Evidence from an extensive taxon sampling using three nuclear genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 (7): 1053 - 1065." year="2002">Huchon et al., 2002</bibRefCitation>
). Gnaw marks made by the extinct Eocene glirid
<taxonomicName id="1583A3D4A919C722F272455A90541B55" authorityName="Vianey-Liaud" authorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Glamys" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2D52E8964AC40C777AC5116FF11C1692" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glamys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were discovered on fossilized Eocene seeds of a freshwater aquatic floating plant, providing evidence of early glirid behavior (
<bibRefCitation id="33D0DF26A496486A5F6C471A2138CBA4" author="Collinson, M. E. &amp; J. J. Hooker" refId="ref64498" refString="Collinson, M. E., and J. J. Hooker. 2000. Gnaw marks on Eocene seeds: Evidence for early Rodent behavior. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 157 (1 - 2): 127 - 149." year="2000">Collinson and Hooker, 2000</bibRefCitation>
). Early middle Eocene sediments in
<collectingCountry id="2B37EB03D4131F8A8FD9D669208B0088" name="Germany">Germany</collectingCountry>
have yielded a perfectly preserved
<taxonomicName id="D9FB9BE8D3FA3C95908B9525D55F5578" authorityName="Hartenberger" authorityYear="1971" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Eogliravus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="wildi">
<emphasis id="7E762B9F00F478840980DE199E3CE1EA" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Eogliravus wildi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Storch et al., 2000;
<bibRefCitation id="92ED409BE98CFCB7FE81A1969242E640" author="Storch, G. &amp; C. Seiffert" refId="ref341763" refString="Storch, G., and C. Seiffert. 2002. An extraordinarily preserved fossil specimen of Eogliravus, the oldest known glirid genus. Pp. 20, in International Conference on Dormouse (Myoxidae). Abstracts (G. Bakonyi, S. Bosze and P. Morris, eds.). Szent Istvan University Department of Zoology and Ecology, Godollo, Hungary, 56 pp." year="2002">Storch and Seiffert, 2002</bibRefCitation>
) represented by a completely articulated skeleton, soft body outline of pelage over body and tail, gut contents, and baculum. Apparently,
<taxonomicName id="6D38F8A3B844513CF0CB07374B2D425D" authorityName="Hartenberger" authorityYear="1971" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Eogliravus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="wildi">
<emphasis id="7A5894722C7A76164632A9C005BE6078" italics="true" pageNumber="819">E. wildi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was agile, arboreal, and fed predominantly on seeds, fruits and buds (Storch et al., 2000;
<bibRefCitation id="5849C39E8664D0F0871A29C468050835" author="Storch, G. &amp; C. Seiffert" refId="ref341763" refString="Storch, G., and C. Seiffert. 2002. An extraordinarily preserved fossil specimen of Eogliravus, the oldest known glirid genus. Pp. 20, in International Conference on Dormouse (Myoxidae). Abstracts (G. Bakonyi, S. Bosze and P. Morris, eds.). Szent Istvan University Department of Zoology and Ecology, Godollo, Hungary, 56 pp." year="2002">Storch and Seiffert, 2002</bibRefCitation>
). Most extant glirid genera were clearly differentiated and exhibited their greatest species diversity by the early to middle Miocene (
<bibRefCitation id="009AEE48C9205C39D5751C2BE94B1204" author="Daams, R." refId="ref72779" refString="Daams, R. 1999. Family Gliridae. Pp. 301 - 318, in The Miocene land mammals of Europe (G. E. Rossner and K. Heissig, eds.). Pfeil, Munchen, 515 pp." year="1999">Daams, 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6FE22A6DB9BB35A64968804650D4A83F" author="Daams, R. &amp; H. De Bruijn" refId="ref72823" refString="Daams, R., and H. De Bruijn. 1995. A classification of the Gliridae (Rodentia) on the basis of dental morphology. Pp. 3 - 50, in Proceedings of II Conference on Dormice (Rodentia, Myoxidae) (M. G. Filippucci, ed.). Hystrix, n. s., 6 (1 - 2): 1 - 340." year="1995">Daams and De Bruijn, 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="050CC6B7FB4E6A59DF29D2E26939BAEF" author="Hartenberger, J. - L." refId="ref141810" refString="Hartenberger, J. - L. 1994. The evolution of the Gliroidea. Pp. 19 - 33, in Rodent and Lagomorph Families of Asian Origins and Diversification (Y. Tomida, C. k. Li and T. Setoguchi, eds.). National Science Museum Monographs, No. 8, Tokyo, 195 pp." year="1994">Hartenberger, 1994</bibRefCitation>
). The
<taxonomicName id="D2396C4D1F8996941353CF39506AC21C" authorityName="Winge" authorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Graphiurinae">Graphiurinae</taxonomicName>
are an exception; definite examples of
<taxonomicName id="EDF464BEC571D8060EDB8E74C3CE8AB1" authorityName="Smuts" authorityYear="1832" class="Mammalia" family="Gliridae" genus="Graphiurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="7464CCCEBAC5910905A6FBD6489F82B3" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Graphiurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are known only as far back as Pliocene (
<bibRefCitation id="BC26D9DAE318B24507930862B4FC1EC7" author="Hendey, Q. B." refId="ref147166" refString="Hendey, Q. B. 1981. Palaeoecology of the Late Tertiary fossil occurrences in ' E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa, and a reinterpretation of their geological context. Annals of the South African Museum, 84 (1): 1 - 104." year="1981">Hendey, 1981</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4E10634FED85062E09DE4EF86AFA4833" author="Pocock, T. N." refId="ref290876" refString="Pocock, T. N. 1976. Pliocene mammalian microfauna from Langebaanweg: A new fossil genus linking the Otomyinae with the Murinae. South African Journal of Science, 72: 58 - 60." year="1976">Pocock, 1976</bibRefCitation>
), although
<bibRefCitation id="84AC4838DB8E4E8844FE301695CE61B2" author="Denys, C." refId="ref81699" refString="Denys, C. 1990 a. Implications paleoecologiques et paleobiogeographiques de l'etude de rongeurs plio-pleistocenes d'Afrique orientale et australe. Memoirs Institut Science et Terre, Univsite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, 428 pp." year="1990">
Denys (1990
<emphasis id="CFCBF747BFA18C9C290B7EEE5A02D7BE" italics="true" pageNumber="819">a</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="0AE73661ED2A604B7B158FA532DE07FF" author="Senut, B. &amp; M. Pickford &amp; P. Mein &amp; G. Conroy &amp; J. Van Couvering" refId="ref323714" refString="Senut, B., M. Pickford, P. Mein, G. Conroy, and J. Van Couvering. 1992. Discovery of 12 new Late Cainozoic fossiliferous sites in palaeokarsts of the Otavi Mountains, Namibia. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris), 314 (ser. II): 727 - 733." year="1992">Senut et al. (1992)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="D81F0A7EDF9A61D16DAE8EC74413EFF7" author="Mein, P. &amp; M. Pickford &amp; B. Senut" refId="ref236653" refString="Mein, P., M. Pickford and B. Senut. 2000 a. Late Miocene micromammals from the Harasib karst deposits, Namibia. Part 1 -- Large muroids and non-muroid rodents. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 12: 375 - 390." year="2000">
Mein et al. (2000
<emphasis id="CC7F465F4909297EE85173F1C3DFE373" italics="true" pageNumber="819">a</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
recorded late Miocene &quot;graphiurines&quot; from
<collectingCountry id="576FE54676ACF33FE640AAD55AA1C8D5" name="South Africa">South Africa</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F437368DF8F59DFD407F2036874881B7" name="Namibia">Namibia</collectingCountry>
. The living Palaearctic genera are but relicts of a rich adaptive radiation of up to 15 genera, and it is hypothesized that Miocene European glirids were ecologically equivalent to certain recent murid assemblages (
<bibRefCitation id="F6D0121B90C2FF5A75B1873965889B3F" author="Hartenberger, J. - L." refId="ref141810" refString="Hartenberger, J. - L. 1994. The evolution of the Gliroidea. Pp. 19 - 33, in Rodent and Lagomorph Families of Asian Origins and Diversification (Y. Tomida, C. k. Li and T. Setoguchi, eds.). National Science Museum Monographs, No. 8, Tokyo, 195 pp." year="1994">Hartenberger, 1994</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="05480C407D96CD37F39CB26656B1F875" pageNumber="819">
The origin of glirids, and the evolutionary relationship between glirids and other rodent families are subjects of much morphological and molecular research with contradictory results.
<bibRefCitation id="CE7E64DC6AE98BE16E472B8F9EA70A24" author="Meng, J." refId="ref237167" refString="Meng, J. 1990. The auditory region of Reithroparamys delicatissimus and its systematic implications. American Museum Novitates, 2972: 1 - 35." year="1990">Meng (1990)</bibRefCitation>
suggested ancestry rooted in reithroparamyids (in Infraorder
<taxonomicName id="7D2C0D8B1EDA087C6D91A8A891F37D32" class="Mammalia" infraOrder="Sciurida" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="infraOrder">Sciurida</taxonomicName>
, which also contains
<taxonomicName id="96CCA32EC497777B604229CFE6760BD4" authorityName="Fischer de Waldheim" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Sciuridae</taxonomicName>
; see
<bibRefCitation id="49489BFC068448373E1557E9D47D0A28" author="McKenna, M. C. &amp; S. K. Bell" refId="ref233772" refString="McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp." year="1997">McKenna and Bell, 1997</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="25A36240C1F58FA9868E45CD79435A3C" author="Hartenberger, J. - L." refId="ref141709" refString="Hartenberger, J. - L. 1971. Contribution a l'etude des genres Gliravus et Microparamys (Rodentia) de l &quot; eocene d'Europe. Paleovertebrata, 4: 97 - 135." year="1971">Hartenberger (1971</bibRefCitation>
, 1994, 1998), Vianey-Liaud (1994) and
<bibRefCitation id="8519B1AD694E96AA8545A557D35E5EA1" author="Vianey-Liaud, M. &amp; J. J. Jaeger" refId="ref371861" refString="Vianey-Liaud, M., and J. J. Jaeger. 1996. A new hypothesis for the origin of African Anomaluridae and Graphiuridae (Rodentia). Paleovertebrata, 25: 349 - 358." year="1996">Vianey-Liaud and Jaeger (1996)</bibRefCitation>
arranged glirids as sciuromorphs rooted in the subfamily
<taxonomicName id="00CE2DBCE864ABD2C8196A7FED68B644" authority="(Ischyromyoidea)" baseAuthorityName="Ischyromyoidea" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Microparamyinae">Microparamyinae (Ischyromyoidea)</taxonomicName>
. Analyses of middle ear anatomy (
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) and cephalic arterial supply (
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within suborder
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(
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is the sister clade to that containing
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incorporated dental characters plus forty-three osteological traits in a phylogenetic analysis of extant glirid genera. Except for the inclusion of
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, Wahlert et al.s classification is followed here because it reflects the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of glirids thus far. Several recent reviews and analyses address intrafamilial relationships using a variety of characters: molecular data (
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). Each study has provided valuable insight, data and hypotheses regarding the relationships among dormice. Some of their conclusions support the hypotheses of
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, others are contradictory. It is not possible to follow any one of these alternate classifications here because usually the methodology used to deduce relationships among glirid genera was not given. Dendrograms depicting hypothesized relationships were provided, as were descriptions of characters, but essential information regarding character states and polarities, numbers and origins of specimens examined, and methodology was either absent or inconsistent. In the few studies that clearly documented methodology and character states, the results were either inconclusive (
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; Zima et al., 1995) or sampled too few taxa to provide a comprehensive hypothesis of intrafamilial relationships (
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is an exception: &quot;... except for the position of
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..., the identification of three major glirid clades (
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and
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<emphasis id="3CF60291CD02E1B3E0E3BC0B4BB9CB75" italics="true" pageNumber="819">Glirulus</emphasis>
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) on molecular grounds confirms and extends the classification proposed by
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on the basis of morphological data.&quot;
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and
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