Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers, gophers and the kangaroo rats. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Anomaluromorpha (the scaly-tailed squirrels and the springhare) and Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents).

Taxonomy

Suborder Castorimorpha

Superfamily Castoroidea

• Family †Eutypomyidae

• Family Castoridae – beavers

• Family †Rhizospalacidae

Infraorder Geomorpha

Superfamily †Eomyoidea

• Family †Eomyidae

Superfamily Geomyoidea

• Family †Heliscomyidae

• Family †Florentiamyidae

• Family †Entoptychidae

• Family Geomyidae – pocket gophers

• Family Heteromyidae – kangaroo rats and mice

Diplolophidae

• Genus †Floresomys

• Genus †Texomys

• Genus †Jimomys

• Genus †Diplolophus

• Genus †Schizodontomys

• Genus †Griphomys

• Genus †Meliakrouniomys

† indicates extinct taxa.

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Carleton, M. D. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Pp 745–752 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.