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Ondatra (muskrat)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Taxonomy

Ondatra was named by Link (1795). It is extant.

It was assigned to Ondatrina by Gray (1825); to Microtinae by Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Arvicolidae by Shoshani et al. (1989); to Cricetidae by Link (1795), Wilson (1967) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ondatrini by Galewski et al. (2006); and to Ondatrinae by Albright et al. (2019).

Species

O. annectens (syn. Fiber oregonus, O. kansasensis), O. idahoensis (syn. Arvicola hiatidens, Anaptogonia cloacina), O. meadensis (syn. Neondatra kansasensis), O. minor, O. zibethicus (syn. O. triradicatus, Fiber nebrascensis)

Synonyms

Neondatra was named by Hibbard (1937). Its type is Neondatra kansasensis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Pliopotamys by Hibbard (1941); it was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra by Martin (1996) and Martin et al. (2002).

It was assigned to Cricetidae by Hibbard (1937) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Pliopotamys was named by Hibbard (1937).

It was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra by Martin (1996).

It was assigned to Microtinae by Kurten and Anderson (1980); and to Cricetidae by Hibbard (1937) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Anaptogonia was named by Cope (1899) [named as a subgenus of Arvicola by Cope 1871; raised to genus level]. Its type is Arvicola hiatidens.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra by Hibbard (1947), Hibbard (1955), Miller (1976), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Martin (1996).

It was assigned to Microtinae by Hay (1902).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1795	Ondatra Link
1825	Ondatra Gray p. 341
1899	Anaptogonia Cope
1902	Anaptogonia Hay p. 728
1937	Neondatra Hibbard
1937	Pliopotamys Hibbard
1967	Ondatra Wilson p. 209
1980	Ondatra Kurten and Anderson p. 265
1980	Pliopotamys Kurten and Anderson p. 265
1989	Ondatra Shoshani et al. p. 436
1997	Neondatra McKenna and Bell
1997	Ondatra McKenna and Bell
1997	Pliopotamys McKenna and Bell
2006	Ondatra Galewski et al.
2019	Ondatra Albright et al. p. 159

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
—	Eumuroida
family	Cricetidae	Fischer von Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Arvicolinae	()
tribe	Ondatrini	()
genus	Ondatra	Link 1795

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ondatra Link 1795 [muskrat]

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†Ondatra annectens Brown 1908

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Invalid names: Fiber oregonus Hollister 1911 [synonym], Ondatra kansasensis Hibbard 1944 [synonym]

†Ondatra idahoensis Wilson 1933

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Invalid names: Anaptogonia cloacina Cope 1896 [synonym], Arvicola hiatidens Cope 1871 [synonym]

†Ondatra meadensis Hibbard 1937

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Invalid names: Neondatra kansasensis Hibbard 1937 [synonym]

†Ondatra minor Kretzoi 1955

Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 [muskrat]

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Invalid names: Fiber nebrascensis Hollister 1911 [synonym], Ondatra triradicatus Starrett 1956 [synonym]

Invalid names: Anaptogonia Cope 1899 [synonym], Neondatra Hibbard 1937 [synonym], Pliopotamys Hibbard 1937 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available