Glires
Appearance
Glires Temporal range: Early Paleocene - Recent
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Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Gliriformes |
Grandorder: | Glires |
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Glires (from Latin glīrēs, dormice) is a clade (sometimes ranked as grandorder) consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas). This hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence, although recent morphological studies strongly support monophyly of Glires.[1]
Euarchontoglires |
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References
[change | change source]- ↑ Meng and Wyss, 2001; Meng et al., 2003