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Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

Taxonomy

Castor zibethicus was named by Linnaeus (1766). It is extant.

It was recombined as Fiber zibethicus by Leidy (1860), Hay (1902) and Hollister (1911); it was recombined as Ondatra zibethica by Hibbard (1955) and Wilson (1967); it was misspelled as Ondatra zibethica by Crile and Quiring (1940); it was recombined as Ondatra zibethicus by Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wilson and Reeder (1993), Galewski et al. (2006) and Albright et al. (2019).

Synonyms

Fiber nebrascensis was named by Hollister (1911). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Ondatra nebrascensis by Semken (1966), Miller (1976), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Martin (1993); it was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra zibethicus by Stephens (1960), Martin (1993) and Martin (1996).
Ondatra triradicatus was named by Starrett (1956). Its type specimen is UMMP No. 31781, a maxilla (fragment of left maxilla with M1-M2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Berends, which is in an Irvingtonian terrestrial horizon in Oklahoma.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra nebrascensis by Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was synonymized subjectively with Ondatra zibethicus by Stephens (1960) and Martin (1996).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1766	Castor zibethicus Linnaeus
1860	Fiber zibethicus Leidy p. 113
1902	Fiber zibethicus Hay p. 729
1911	Fiber nebrascensis Hollister
1911	Fiber zibethicus Hollister
1940	Ondatra zibethica Crile and Quiring p. 248
1955	Ondatra zibethica Hibbard p. 216
1956	Ondatra triradicatus Starrett
1966	Ondatra nebrascensis Semken, Jr.
1967	Ondatra zibethica Wilson p. 209
1976	Ondatra nebrascensis Miller
1980	Ondatra nebrascensis Kurten and Anderson p. 266
1980	Ondatra zibethicus Kurten and Anderson p. 266
1993	Ondatra nebrascensis Martin
1993	Ondatra zibethicus Wilson and Reeder
2006	Ondatra zibethicus Galewski et al.
2019	Ondatra zibethicus Albright et al. p. 161

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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
species	zibethicus	(Linnaeus 1766)

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.

Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 [muskrat]

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

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available