Synaptomys Baird 1858
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Synaptomys

description: <i>Synaptomys</i> Baird, 1858. Mammalia <i>in</i> Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):558. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Synaptomys cooperi</i> Baird, 1858. SYNONYMS: <i>Mictomys, Plioctomys.</i> COMMENTS: Many taxonomic characters link <i>Synaptomys</i> with the true lemmings <i>(Lemmus</i> and <i>Myopus)</i> in a clade, usually treated as the tribe Lemmini, believed to represent an early line of arvicoline evolution (Carleton, 1981; Chaline and Graf, 1988; Graf, 1982; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977; Hinton, 1926; Hooper and Hart, 1962; Koenigswald, 1980). Fossil history reviewed by Koenigswald and Martin (1984). Although described as a genus, Miller (1896) arranged <i>Mictomys</i> as a subgenus of <i>Synaptomys,</i> as conventionally recognized (Hall, 1981; Howell, 1927). Paleontologists, however, have emphasized the dental divergence of <i>Synaptomys</i> and <i>Mictomys</i> at the generic level (Koenigswald and Martin, 1984; Repenning and Grady, 1988), although both are presumed to have separated from a common ancestor <i>(Plioctomys)</i> in the late Pliocene. Current specific and subspecific classification essentially derives from Howell (1927).
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 534, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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