Biology:Echimys
| Echimys Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
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| File:Echimys chrysurus.tif | |
| Echimys chrysurus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Tribe: | Echimyini |
| Genus: | Echimys |
| Type species | |
| Myoxus chrysurus | |
| Species | |
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Echimys chrysurus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Echinomys Wagner, 1840[1] | |
Echimys is a genus of the spiny rats family, the Echimyidae.[2][3] Members of this genus are collectively called spiny tree-rats.
The genus name Echimys, and also its synonym Echinomys,[1] derive from the two Ancient Greek words ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), meaning "hedgehog", and μῦς (mûs), meaning "mouse, rat".[4][5]
Classification
The genus contains three extant species
- White-faced spiny tree-rat - Echimys chrysurus
- Dark spiny tree-rat - Echimys saturnus
- Vieira's spiny tree-rat - Echimys vieirai
Members of the genera Callistomys, Makalata, Pattonomys, and Phyllomys were all formerly considered part of the genus Echimys.
Phylogeny
Echimys is the sister genus to Phyllomys, and then to Makalata. These taxa are closely related to the genera Pattonomys and Toromys. In turn, these five genera share phylogenetic affinities with a clade containing the bamboo rats Dactylomys, Olallamys, Kannabateomys together with Diplomys and Santamartamys.[6]
| Genus-level cladogram of the Echimyini. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wagner, Johann Andreas (1840), "Beschreibung einiger neuer Nager, welche auf der Reise des Herrn Hofraths v. Schubert gesammelt wurden: mit Bezugnahme auf einige andere verwandte Formen" (in de), Abhandl. Math.—Physik. König. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München: 191–210, https://books.google.com/books?id=tAhBAAAAcAAJ
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedCuvierF1809 - ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Genus Echimys". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1578. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400429.
- ↑ Bailly, Anatole (1981-01-01). Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français. Paris: Hachette. ISBN 978-2010035289. OCLC 461974285.
- ↑ Bailly, Anatole. "Greek-french dictionary online". http://www.tabularium.be/bailly/.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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Wikidata ☰ Q911368 entry
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