Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Cynomys (Rodentia, Sciuridae: prairie dog) from northwestern Sonora, Mexico
493 GEODIVERSITAS• 2004 • 26 (3) © Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.geodiversitas.com Discovery of Fallomus ladakhensis Nanda & Sahni, 1998 (Mammalia, Rodentia, Diatomyidae) in the lignites of Nong Ya Plong (Phetchaburi Province, Thailand ...
593 GEODIVERSITAS • 2008 • 30 (3) © Publications Scientifi ques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.geodiversitas.com KEY WORDS Mammalia, Rodentia, Heteromyidae, Perognathinae, cranial foramina, Barstovian, Arikareean, Miocene new genera, new species.
1 1 Order RODENTIA 1. The largest and most successful mammalian order 2.29 extant families, >426 genera, and > 2015 recognized species (43% of mammals) 3.
RODENTIA, PART 1: FAMILIES EUTYPOMYIDAE, EOMYIDAE, HELISCOMYIDAE, AND ZETAMYS William W. Korth Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, 265 Carling Road, Rochester, NY 14610 ABSTRACT More than twenty species of rodents have been listed from the Blue Ash local fauna of South Dakota in preliminary ...
8 Key to the Order Rodentia: 1. Four toes with obvious claws on front foot 2. Tail length greater than 1.5 times head and body length………………………….………..………….... Family Dipodidae > Zapus hudsonius (meadow jumping mouse) 2.
Aethomyschrysophilus (Rodentia: Muridae) A LICIA V. L INZEY AND C HRISTIAN T. C HIMIMBA Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705, USA; avlinzey@verizon.net (AVL) Mammal Research Institute (MRI) and DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB ...
American beaver, Castor canadensis (Rodentia: Castoridae), and cross-species amplification in the European beaver, Castor fiber KARLA PELZ-SERRANO,* ADRIAN MUNGUIA-VEGA,* ANTOINETTE J. PIAGGIO,†
2 NO. 3351 AMERICAN MUSEUMNOVITATES ABSTRACT Neotropical porcupines of the Coendouvestitus group consist of four small-bodied species from northwestern South America that are hypothesized to forma clade on the basis of their unique dorsal pelage composition.
observations on the behaviour of the smoky mouse, pseudomys fumeus (rodentia: muridae) in captivity