Zyzomys Thomas 1909
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Zyzomys

description: <i>Zyzomys</i> Thomas, 1909. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 3:372. TYPE SPECIES: Mus <i>argurus</i> Thomas, 1889. SYNONYMS: <i>Laomys.</i> COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167) or Conilurini of Baverstock (1984) and Lee et al. (1981). Taxonomy of species appraised by Kitchener (1989). Chromosomal morphology distinct from other Australian murines (Baverstock et al., 1977c), but this result was not supported by electrophoretic data (Baverstock et al., 1981), and G-banding homologies suggested karyotype of Zyzomys "to be derived from the ancestral karyotype characterizing <i>Conilurus, Mesembriomys,</i> and <i>Leggadina ”</i> (Baverstock et al., 1983b). Molar traits resembled those characterizing <i>Conilurus</i> (Misonne, 1969), but phallic characters linked Zyzomys to <i>Pseudomys</i> and its close relatives (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987). Data from microcomplement fixation of albumin indicated <i>Zyzomys</i> belongs in a clade with <i>Mesembriomys, Conilurus,</i> <i>Leporillus,</i> and <i>Melomys</i> (Watts et al., 1992). External morphology of glans penis and spermatozoal structure reported by Breed, 1984), Breed and Sarafis, 1978; and Morrissey and Breed (1982). Mahoney and Richardson (1988) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references to some of the species.
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 674, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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