Zapodinae

ZapodinaeCoues, 1875

Hyväksytty nimi, Maailman nisäkkäiden luettelo 2005

The recognition of three genera of living zapodines (Ellerman, 1940; Klingener, 1963; Krutzsch, 1954; R. A. Martin, 1994), which we retain here, has been challenged by Corbet (1978c), Corbet and Hill (1992), and Simpson (1945), who included Eozapus in Zapus. Higher level relationships among zapodines have been addressed by Preble (1899), who described Eozapus and Napaeozapus as new subgenera of Zapus, and by Krutzsch (1954), who supported generic separation based on differences in tooth number and occlusal pattern, bacula, and ear ossicles. Klingener (1964:75) found no consistant differences in the myology of Zapus versus Napaeozapus (Eozapus was not included in his study), but favored generic separation of the two based on dental morphology. The dental differences between Eozapus on one hand, and Zapus and Napaeozapus on the other, as documented in Klingener (1963), R. A. Martin (1994), Preble (1899... [truncated]

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