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Thryonomyidae

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The genus Thryonomys, also known as the cane rats, is a genus of rodent found throughout Africa south of the Sahara, the only members of the family Thryonomyidae. They are eaten in some African countries and are a pest species on many crops. The family name comes from the Greek word thryon, meaning a "rush" or "reed".

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thryonomyidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9458	https://www.gbif.org/species/9458
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42022	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42022

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
-	Ctenohystrica	Huchon et al. 2000
superfamily	Thryonomyoidea	Pocock 1922
family	Thryonomyidae	Pocock 1922

Common Name

cane rat

Scientific Name

Thryonomyidae

Name Published In

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1922 p.423

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thryonomyidae	family	belongs to Thryonomyoidea	stated without evidence	Wood, 1958
Thryonomyidae	family	belongs to Thryonomyoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Thryonomyidae	family	belongs to Rodentia	implied	Nowak, 1991
Thryonomyidae	family	belongs to Phiomorpha	implied	Nowak, 1999
Thryonomyidae	family	belongs to Thryonomyoidea	stated with evidence	Huchon and Douzery, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

grazer

Ecospace Comments

life habit and diet based on Nowak 1999

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

Cane Rats, Cane Rat

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thryonomyidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest
👁 Image Apodecter ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	22.4 Ma Miocene	22.4 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Epiphiomys ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Kochalia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Neophiomys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
👁 Image Neosciuromys ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
👁 Image Paraphiomys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	33.9 Ma Oligocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Paraulacodus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Petromus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
👁 Image Protohummus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
👁 Image Sacaresia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
👁 Image Thryonomys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	44	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1922	Thryonomyidae Pocock
1958	Thryonomyidae Wood p. 172
1988	Thryonomyidae Carroll
1991	Thryonomyidae Nowak
1999	Thryonomyidae Nowak
2001	Thryonomyidae Huchon and Douzery p. 242
2019	Thryonomyidae Sallam and Seiffert

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Wood A. E. (1958) Are there rodent suborders?, Systematic Zoology 7 4, 169-173

Nowak R. M. (1991) Walker's Mammals of the World, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press (edited volume) II

Nowak R. M. (1999) , Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition II, 837-1936

Huchon D., Douzery E. J. P. (2001) From the Old World to the New World: a molecular chronicle of the phylogeny and biogeography of hystricognath rodents, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 20 2, 238-251

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell, 1997: null. Classification of mammals above the species level. 631. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 1538-1600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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