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Thryonomys

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Description

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/Thryonomys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2437634	https://www.gbif.org/species/2437634
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42027	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42027

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : Thryonomys

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
genus	Thryonomys	Fitzinger 1867

Scientific Name

Thryonomys Fitzinger, 1867

Name Published In

Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wein vol.56 1 p.141

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thryonomys	genus	belongs to Thryonomyidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Thryonomys	genus	belongs to Thryonomyidae	stated without evidence	López-Antoñazas and Sen, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

grazer (based on Thryonomyidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Cane Rats

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thryonomys arkelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thryonomys gregorianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thryonomys swinderianus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Greater Cane Rat	12	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Choeromys Thomas, 1922	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : *Choeromys*
Aulacodes Wallace, 1876	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : *Aulacodes*
Aularodus Brookes, 1828	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : *Aularodus*
Triaulacodus Lydekker, 1896	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : *Triaulacodus*
Aulacodus Temminck, 1827	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Thryonomyidae : *Aulacodus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1827	Aulacodus Temminck
1867	Thryonomys Fitzinger
1997	Thryonomys McKenna and Bell
2005	Thryonomys López-Antoñazas and Sen p. 229 figs. Fig. 3
2019	Thryonomys Sallam and Seiffert

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

López-Antoñazas R. L., Sen S. (2005) New species of Paraphiomys (Rodentia, Thryonomyidae) from the lower Miocene of As-Sarrar, Saudi Arabia, Palaeontology 48 2, 223-233

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)

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)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

S. B. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 56 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - 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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