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Eliurus Milne-Edwards, 1885
Taxonomic Serial No.: 632586

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	Tufted-tailed Rats [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2014

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 – esquilo, preá, rato, roedor, rongeurs, rodents
	Suborder	Myomorpha Brandt, 1855 – Rats, souris, Mice, Rats, Voles, Gerbils, Hamsters, Lemmings
	Superfamily	Muroidea Illiger, 1811
	Family	Nesomyidae Forsyth Major, 1897
	Subfamily	Nesomyinae Forsyth Major, 1897
	Genus	Eliurus Milne-Edwards, 1885 – Tufted-tailed Rats
		Direct Children:
	Species	Eliurus antsingy Carleton, Goodman and Rakotondravony, 2001 – Tsingy Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus danieli Carleton and Goodman, 2007
	Species	Eliurus ellermani Carleton, 1994 – Ellerman's Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus grandidieri Carleton and Goodman, 1998 – Grandidier's Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus majori Thomas, 1895 – Major's Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus minor Forsyth Major, 1896 – Lesser Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus myoxinus Milne-Edwards, 1885 – Dormouse Tufted-tailed Rat, Western Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus penicillatus Thomas, 1908 – White-tipped Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus petteri Carleton, 1994 – Petter's Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus tanala Forsyth Major, 1896 – Tanala Tufted-tailed Rat
	Species	Eliurus webbi Ellerman, 1949 – Webb's Tufted-tailed Rat

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Guy G. Musser
	Notes:	Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
	Reference for:	Eliurus

	Expert:	Michael D. Carleton
	Notes:	Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
	Reference for:	Eliurus

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	Source:
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	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Carleton, Michael D., and David F. Schmidt
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:	Systematic Studies of Madagascar's Endemic Rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): an Annotated Gazetteer of Collecting Localities of Known Forms
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	American Museum Novitates, no. 2987
	Page(s):	1-36
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0003-0082
	Notes:	Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5074
	Reference for:	Eliurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:	Superfamily Muroidea
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
	Page(s):	894-1531
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Eliurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Eliurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
	Publication Date:	2000
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Common Names of Mammals of the World
	Page(s):	xiv + 204
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-383-3
	Notes:	With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
	Reference for:	Tufted-tailed Rats[English]

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: Genus arrayed as a monotypic tribe within Murinae by Ellerman (1941), an affinity confuted by molecular data (Dubois et al., 1996; Jansa et al., 1999). Ellerman (1949) set the precedent for recognizing only two species, the large polytypic E. myoxinus and the small monotypic E. minor, an arrangement later followed by F. Petter (1972c, 1975a) and others (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Honacki et al., 1982). Revised by Carleton (1994), who recognized 8 species and summarized their morphological ident...

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