Ailurus F. G. Cuvier 1825
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Ursidae
Ailurus

description: <i>Ailurus</i> F. G. Cuvier, 1825. <i>In</i> E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifèeres, pt. 3, 5(50), "Panda" 3 pp. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Ailurus fulgens</i> F. G. Cuvier, 1825, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987). COMMENTS: Biochemical and molecular evidence has suggested that the enigmatic <i>Ailurus</i> is intermediate between the procyonids and the ursids (O'Brien et al., 1985; Sarich, 1973; Tagle et al., 1986; Wayne et al., 1989; Wurster and Benirschke, 1968); more closely related to ursids than to procyonids (Todd and Pressmann, 1968; Zhang and Shi, 1991); or more closely related to the procyonids than to ursids (Goldman et al., 1989). Morphological studies have pointed out the lack of any shared derived features with the procyonids (Bugge, 1978; Decker and Wozencraft, 1991; Ginsburg, 1982; Hunt, 1974; Mayr, 1986; Schmidt-Kittler, 1981; Wozencraft, 1989«, <i>b).</i> Flynn et al. (1988) could not find any unambiguous features to place <i>Ailurus</i> with the procyonids, and only two characters to unite <i>Ailurus</i> with some procyonids, the loss of M/ 3 (shared also with mustelids) and the presence of a cusp on P4 on some, but not all procyonids. Wozencraft (1989«) found 9 shared derived features with the Ursidae, and Decker and Wozencraft (1991) identified 6 unambiguous shared derived features of the procyonids, all of which are lacking in <i>Ailurus.</i> Only phenetic studies have indicated any kind of relationship to the procyonids (Gregory, 1936; Thenius, 1979) and only when compared to <i>Procyon,</i> a derived procyonid (Baskin, 1982, 1989; Decker and Wozencraft, 1991).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 336, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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