ctenodactylid

English

Ctenodactylus gundi

Noun

ctenodactylid (plural ctenodactylids)

1. (zoology) Any of the several rodents of the family Ctenodactylidae.
   • 1967, Sydney Anderson, Recent Mammals of the World: A Synopsis of Families‎^[1], page 30:

     Miocene and Pliocene ctenodactylids are known from Asia and Africa. In the Oligocene forms cheek-teeth were brachydont, and all known fossil ctenodactylids retained P 4 and p 4, with these teeth showing various stages of reduction.

   • 2005, Fritz Dieterlen, “Family Ctenodactylidae”, in Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, editors, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition, volume 12, page 1536:

     According to Luckett (1985), Bugge (1985), and George (1985), ctenodactylids are an early offshoot of the hystricognathous rodents. Beintema et al. (1991), stating that no molecular data were available, investigated tissues, blood, and proteins and concluded that it was not yet possible to determine whether ctrnodactylids and hystricognathous rodents "share a common ancestor or are located on separate branches."

   • 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, unnumbered page:

     Ctenodactylids share many derived characters with the Hystricognathi, but ctenodactylids retain many primitive features and are considered (along with the Diatomyidae) a possible sister group to hystriognath rodents (Dietrlen 2005; Huchon et al. 2007).

Synonyms

• (any species of family Ctenodactylidae): comb rat, gundi