Myocastor adalah genus hewan pengerat yang mencakup nutria (atau coypu) yang masih hidup, serta beberapa spesies fosil (punah).
Taksonomi
Karena morfologi kranium mereka yang serupa, nutria awalnya dianggap sebagai kerabat dekat hutia dari kepulauan Karibia, ditempatkan bersama dalam famili Capromyidae.[1] Belakangan, dipindahkan ke familinya sendiri, Myocastoridae.[2] Studi molekuler terkini menempatkannya pada famili Echimyidae, dalam tribus Myocastorini.[3][4][5]
Catatan fosil
Kerber et al. (2013) mengakui spesies tersebut sebagai sah:[6]
Spesies lain yang dideskripsikan namun sekarang tidak sah mecakup Myocastor minor, Myocastor perditus, and Myocastor priscus.
Referensi
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Howland, E.B. (1979). "Adaptive Radiation of Capromyid Rodents: Anatomy of the Masticatory Apparatus". Journal of Mammalogy. 60 (1): 95–116. doi:10.2307/1379762. JSTOR 1379762.
- ↑ Woods, C. A. (1982). "The history and classification of South American Hystricognath rodents: reflections on the far away and long ago". Dalam Mares, M. A.; Genoways, H. H. (ed.). Mammalian Biology in South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh. hlm. 377–392.
- ↑ Galewski, Thomas; Mauffrey, Jean-François; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Patton, James L.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2005). "Ecomorphological diversification among South American spiny rats (Rodentia; Echimyidae): a phylogenetic and chronological approach". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 601–615. Bibcode:2005MolPE..34..601G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.015. PMID 15683932.
- ↑ Upham, Nathan S.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2012). "Diversification and biogeography of the Neotropical caviomorph lineage Octodontoidea (Rodentia: Hystricognathi)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (2): 417–429. Bibcode:2012MolPE..63..417U. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.020. PMID 22327013.
- ↑ Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Upham, Nathan S.; Emmons, Louise H.; Justy, Fabienne; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Loss, Ana Carolina; Orlando, Ludovic; Tilak, Marie-Ka; Patterson, Bruce D.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2017-03-01). "Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw261. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 28025278.
- ↑ Kerber, L. (2013). "Late Quaternary fossil record of Myocastor Kerr, 1792 (Rodentia: Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha) from Brazil with taxonomical and environmental remarks". Quaternary International: 1–12.
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