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Taxon: Family Gliridae Muirhead, 1819 - dormice (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Subsequent positions

Gliroidea (Superfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Simpson, 1945

Original entries

Questionably Glirinae (Subfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Thomas, 1897
Questionably Myomiminae (Subfamily) Daams, 1981

Current position

Glirimorpha (Infraorder) Thaler, 1966 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1049. [inferred]

Alternative positions

Gliroidea (Superfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Simpson, 1945 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 636.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 196.
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Historical positions

Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 196.
Gliroidea (Superfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Simpson, 1945 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 636.
Gliroidea (Superfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Simpson, 1945 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1049-1050; 1048.
Gliroidea (Superfamily) (Muirhead, in Brewster, 1819) Simpson, 1945 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 590.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 8g;26s;10ss; †37g;3s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [8g;26s; †37g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58 9g;28s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [8g];~20s
1982 A.F. DeBlase: 1049, 1050 2sf;[7g;23s]
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