Sciurognathi

Sciurognathi

Taxobox
name = Sciurognathi


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Mountain beaver ("Aplodontia rufa")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
subclassis = Eutheria
ordo = Rodentia
subordo = Sciurognathi
subdivision_ranks = Infraorders
subdivision =
* Anomaluromorpha
* Castorimorpha
* Ctenodactylomorpha
* Geomorpha
* Glirimorpha
* Myodonta
* Sciurida

Sciurognathi is a suborder of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, beavers, and many types of mice. The group is characterized by a specific shape to the lower jaw. In sciurognaths, the angular process of the jaw is in the same plane as the root of the incisors. This is in contrast to the suborder Hystricognathi where the angular process is outside of the plane formed at the root of the incisor due to the presence of a shelf for muscle attachment.

The sciurognathous condition is considered to be the primitive condition in rodents, and is therefore not a good character according to cladistic philosophy. Although hystricognaths are almost universally accepted as representing a real evolutionary grouping, most researchers do not consider Sciurognathi as an equally valid group. In particular, gundis are thought to be more closely related to the hystricognathous rodents than to other sciurognaths.In spite of this, most texts continue to use these two suborders due primarily to a lack of a viable alternative.

Alternatively, some texts group rodents into three suborders on the basis of the shape of the infraorbital canal. According to this taxonomy the rodents are divided into the suborders Sciuromorpha, Hystricomorpha, and Myomorpha.

ee also

*Sciuromorpha
*Myomorpha
*Castorimorpha
*Anomaluromorpha
*Hystricomorpha


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