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Taxon: Family Ctenodactylidae Gervais, 1853 - gundis (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Sciuravida (Clade) McKenna & Bell 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 186 (note 1).

Subsequent positions

†Sciuravida (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189.

Original entries

Questionably †Africanomys (Genus) Lavocat, 1961
Questionably †Akzharomys (Genus) Shevyreva, 1994
Questionably †Distylomys (Genus) Wang, 1988
Questionably Felovia (Genus) Lataste, 1886
Questionably †Irhoudia (Genus) Jaeger, 1971
Questionably †Karakoromys (Genus) Matthew & Granger, 1923
Questionably †Metasayimys (Genus) Lavocat, 1961
Questionably †Muratkhanomys (Genus) Shevyreva, 1994
Questionably †Pireddamys (Genus) de Bruijn & Rümke, 1974
Questionably †Prodistylomys (Genus) Wang & Qi, 1989
Questionably †Roborovskia (Genus) Shevyreva, 1994
Questionably †Sardomys (Genus) de Bruijn & Rümke, 1974
Questionably †Sayimys (Genus) Wood, 1937
Questionably †Tataromys (Genus) Matthew & Granger, 1923
Questionably †Testouromys (Genus) Robinson & Black, 1973
Questionably †Yindirtemys (Genus) Bohlin, 1946

Subsequent entries

Ctenodactylus (Genus) Gray, 1830
Massouteria (Genus) Lataste, 1885
Pectinator (Genus) Blyth, 1856
†Pellegrinia (Genus) de Gregorio, 1886

Current position

Ctenodactylomorphi (Infraorder) Chaline & Mein, 1979 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Alternative positions

Ctenodactyloidea (Superfamily) (Gervais, 1853) Simpson, 1945 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 638).
Ctenohystrica ([unranked]) Ref: L. Marivaux et al., 2004: abstract.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 208.
†Sciuravida (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189. [new position]
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: F. Dieterlen, 1993: 761.

Historical positions

Ctenodactylomorphi (Infraorder) Chaline & Mein, 1979 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Ctenodactylomorphi (Infraorder) Chaline & Mein, 1979 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Ctenohystrica ([unranked]) Ref: L. Marivaux et al., 2004: abstract.
†Sciuravida (Suborder) McKenna & Bell, 1997 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 189-190. [new position]
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: F. Dieterlen, 1993: 761; 7.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 208.
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 303.
Ctenodactyloidea (Superfamily) (Gervais, 1853) Simpson, 1945 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 638).
Ctenodactyloidea (Superfamily) (Gervais, 1853) Simpson, 1945 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1054; 1051.
Ctenodactyloidea (Superfamily) (Gervais, 1853) Simpson, 1945 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 584.

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 4g;5s; †16g
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 4g;5s; †[16g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58 4g;5s
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [4g; †16g]
1993 F. Dieterlen 4g;5s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [4g];5s
1982 A.F. DeBlase 4g;5s
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