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Myospalax

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Description

Myospalax is a genus of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It contains these species of zokor:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myospalax, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2439119	https://www.gbif.org/species/2439119
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41815	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41815

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : Myospalax

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Myospalax

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
subfamily	Myospalacinae
genus	Myospalax	Laxmann 1769

Common Name

zokor

Scientific Name

Myospalax Laxmann, 1769

Name Published In

Sibirische Briefe, Gottingen p.75

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Myospalax	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Myospalax	genus	belongs to Myospalacinae	stated with evidence	Steppan et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.78 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Rodentia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Zokor, Zokors

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myospalax

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Myospalax aspalax species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myospalax myospalax species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myospalax psilurus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Myotalpa Kerr, 1792	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : *Myotalpa*
Episiphneus Kretzoi, 1961	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : *Episiphneus*
Siphneus Brants, 1827	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : *Siphneus*
Aspalomys Gervais, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : *Aspalomys*
Siphenus Gray, 1847	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Spalacidae : *Siphenus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1773	Myospalax Laxmann
1997	Myospalax McKenna and Bell
2004	Myospalax Steppan et al. p. 535

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Steppan S. J., Adkins R. M., et al (2004) Phylogeny and divergence-date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes, Systematic Biology 53 4, 533-553

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sibir. Briefe - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott, 1966: null. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, 2nd edition. 810. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 894-1531. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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