Sicistinae Allen, 1901

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 495

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Subfamily Sicistinae Allen, 1901 View in CoL . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14:185.

SYNONYMS: Sminthi, Sminthinae.

COMMENTS: Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), Shenbrot (1992), and others use the family name Sminthidae for this group, because Brandt's (1855) supergeneric taxon Sminthi predates Sicistinae Allen, 1901 «. However, article 66 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1985:125-127) states that when two genera are united their respective type species remain the same, and the valid name of the newly formed taxon is that of the component taxon with the oldest valid name. Sicista Gray, 1827 predates Sminthus Nordmann, 1840 , and thus the correct genus name is Sicista . Sicistinae is the valid subfamily (or family) name according to article 23 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1985:47). The separation of Sicistinae from Zapodinae , suggested by Ellerman (1940), is supported by the results of Shenbrot (1986, 1992), Sokolov et al. (1987b), Stein (1990), and Vorontsov (1969). Though the modern distribution of Sicista is Palaearctic, Sicistinae has been recorded from Pleistocene deposits in North America ( Martin, 1989a).

References

Brandt, J. F. 1855. Beitrage zur nahern Kenntniss der Saugethiere Russland's. Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, Memoires Mathematiques, Physiques et Naturelles, 7: 1 - 365.

Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp.

[Gray, J. E.]. 1827. Synopsis of the species of the Class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization, by Cuvier, and other naturalists, with specific characters, synonyma, & c. & c., vol. 5, in The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. (E. Griffith, C. H. Smith, and E. Pidgeon, eds.). G. B. Whittaker, London, 391 pp.

Martin, R. A. 1989 a. Early Pleistocene zapodid rodents from the Java local fauna of north-central South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 9 (1): 101 - 109.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Shenbrot, G. I. 1986. [Supergeric relationships of the jerboas (Rodentia, Dipodoidea).] Chetvertii Sezd Vsesoyuznovo Teriologicheske Obshchestva, Tezisy Dokladov, Moscow, 1: 106 - 107 (in Russian).

Shenbrot, G. I. 1992. [Cladistic approach to the analysis of phylogenetic relationships among dipodoid rodents (Rodentia, Dipodoidea)]. Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Muzeya MGU, 29: 176 - 201 (in Russian).

Stein, B. R. 1990. Limb myology and phylogenetic relationships in the superfamily Dipodoidea (birch mice, jumping mice, and jerboas). Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 28: 299 - 314.