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Taxonomy
Platacanthomyidae was named by Alston (1876) [includes Neocometes
originally entered as a subfamily]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Platacanthomyinae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Cricetidae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971); to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Muroidea by Steppan et al. (2004).
It was reranked as the subfamily Platacanthomyinae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Steppan et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Cricetidae by Mein and Freudenthal (1971); to Muridae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Muroidea by Steppan et al. (2004).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Platacanthomyinae Mein and Freudenthal p. 9 |
| 1997 | Platacanthomyinae McKenna and Bell p. 172 |
| 2004 | Platacanthomyinae Steppan et al. p. 547 |
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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.
Subfm. Platacanthomyinae Alston 1876
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G. †Neocometes Schaub and Zapfe 1953
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†Neocometes orientalis Mein 1990
†Neocometes similis Fahlbusch 1966
G. Typhlomys Milne-Edwards 1877 [Chinese pygmy dormouse]
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Typhlomys chapensis Osgood 1932
Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards 1877
Typhlomys daloushanensis Cheng et al. 2017
Typhlomys nanus Cheng et al. 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available