Golunda
Appearance
Golunda | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Indian bush rat(Golunda ellioti) | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Arvicanthini |
Genus: | Golunda Gray,1837 |
Species | |
Golundais agenusofmurinerodent.
Fossil record
[edit]TheIndian bush rat(Golunda ellioti)is the sole surviving member of this genus, but it was formerly more diverse and widespread, occurring in bothAsiaandAfrica.The last surviving species in Africa wasGolunda aouragheifrom theEarly Pleistocene.[1]The genus was thought to have originated in Africa, with thePliocene-agedG. guraithought to be ancestral to all other species, but it is now thought that the genus originated inIndiawith the speciesG. tatroticus,also from the Pliocene.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Piñero, P. (2019). "Golunda aouraghei, sp. nov., the Last Representative of the Genus Golunda in Africa".Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.39(6): e1742726.doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1742726.
- ^Kotlia, B.; Sanwal, J. (2004). "A new species of Golunda (Rodentia, Muridae) from the Late Pleistocene of Indian Himalaya".Geobios.37(6): 725–730.doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.06.004.