- and sizes, and
occupy a wide
variety of
ecological niches.
There are
nesomyines that
resemble gerbils, rats, mice, voles, and even rabbits.
There are...
- families. This
endemic terrestrial fauna,
consisting of lemurs, tenrecs,
nesomyine rodents and
euplerid carnivorans, is
thought to have
colonized the island...
-
brought to
Madagascar the
ancestors of its tenrecs, lemurs,
carnivorans and
nesomyine rodents. The
other mammalian colonizations were
those of the amphibious...
-
Species of
Voalavo are small, gray, mouse-like rodents,
among the
smallest nesomyines. They lack the
distinctive tuft of long
hairs on the tail that is characteristic...
-
placed Macrotarsomys–Monticolomys
sister to a
clade containing four
other nesomyine genera—Eliurus, Voalavo, Gymnuromys, and Brachytarsomys. The Malagasy...
- small. The
zygomatic arches (ch****bones) are narrow, but as
usual in
nesomyines contain a
relatively long
jugal bone. The
interorbital region (between...
- Madagascar, in
addition to tenrecs, lemurs,
euplerid carnivores, and
nesomyine rodents. Forty-six bat
species have so far been
recorded on Madagascar...
-
biologist François Petter, who has
contributed to the
scientific study of the
nesomyines. In 1998,
Carleton and
Steven Goodman described a
related species, Eliurus...
