Ailuridae este o familie de mamifere carnivore mici, care are în componență doar un membru: Ailurus fulgens sau panda roșu.

Ailuridae
Fosilă: oligocen–prezent
Panda roșu
Clasificare științifică
Regn: Animalia
Încrengătură: Chordata
Clasă: Mammalia
Ordin: Carnivora
Subordin: Caniformia
Infraordin: Arctoidea
Suprafamilie: Musteloidea
Familie: Ailuridae
Gray, 1843
Genuri

Actiocyon ()
Ailurus
Alopecocyon ()
Amphictis ()
Magerictis ()
Parailurus ()
Pristinailurus ()
Protursus ()
Simocyon ()

arealul pandei roșii

Caracteristici generale modificare

  • Are o lungime de 50 cm;
  • Are o greutate de 3 kg;
  • Are o blană roșie

Răspândire modificare

Este răspândit în India și Nepal.

Membri modificare

Specii fosile modificare

Familia Ailuridae conține și opt genuri extincte, majoritatea din ele incluse în subfamiliile Ailurinae și Simocyoninae.[1][2][3][4][5]

  • Familia Ailuridae
    • Genul Protursus ()
      • Protursus simpsoni
    • ?Subfamilia Amphictinae
      • Genul Viretius ()
        • Viretius goeriachensis
      • Genul Amphictis ()
        • Amphictis aginensis
        • Amphictis antiqua
        • Amphictis borbonica
        • Amphictis prolongata
        • Amphictis schlosseri
        • Amphictis wintershofensis
    • Subfamilia Simocyoninae ()
      • Genul Alopecocyon ()
        • Alopecocyon leardi
      • Genul Simocyon ()
        • Simocyon batalleri
        • Simocyon diaphorus
        • Simocyon hungaricus
        • Simocyon primigenius
    • Subfamilia Ailurinae

Referințe modificare

  1. ^ McKenna, MC & Bell SK (). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. 
  2. ^ Peigné, S., M. Salesa, M. Antón, and J. Morales (). „Ailurid carnivoran mammal Simocyon from the late Miocene of Spain and the systematics of the genus”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50: 219–238. 
  3. ^ Salesa, M., M. Antón, S. Peigné, and J. Morales (). „Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (2): 379–382. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504899102. PMC 1326154 . PMID 16387860. 
  4. ^ Wallace, SC & Wang, X (). „Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North Americ”. Nature. 431 (7008): 556–559. doi:10.1038/nature02819. PMID 15457257. 
  5. ^ Ailuridae (în engleză), www.helsinki.fi 

Lectură suplimentară modificare

  • Davis, Davis D. (1964). “The Giant Panda: A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms.“ Zoology Memoirs. Vol. 3:1-339.
  • Decker D.M. and W.C. Wozencraft. (1991). “Phylogenetic Analysis of Recent Procyonid Genera.“ Journal of Mammalogy. Vol. 72 (1): 42-55.
  • Flynn, J.J. and G.D. Wesley Hunt. (2005a). “Carnivora.“ in The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origin, Timing and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades, by D. Archibold and K. Rose. Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-8022-X
  • Flynn, John J., et al. (2005b). “Molecular phylogeny of the Carnivora (Mammalia): ASS-ASS the impact of increased sampling to on resolving enigmatic relationships.“ Systematic Biology. Vol. 54 (2):1-21. [1] Arhivat în , la Wayback Machine.
  • Flynn, John J. Flynn, Michael A. Nedbal, J.W. Dragoo, and R.L. Honeycutt. (1998) "Whence the Red Panda?" Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Vol. 17, No. 2, November 2000, pp. 190–199. [2]
  • Glatston, A.R. (1989). Talk Panda Biology. The Hague. ISBN 90-5103-026-6
  • Glatston, A.R. (compiler) (1994). “The Red Panda, Olingos, Coatis, Raccoons, and their Relatives: Status survey and conservation action plan for Procyonids and Ailurids.”
  • IUCN/SSC Mustelid, Viverrid, and Procyonid Specialist Group. IUCN/SSC, Gland, Switzerland.
  • Gregory, W.K. (1936). “On the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda) to other Arctoid Carnivores.“ American Museum Novitates. Vol. 878:1-29.
  • Hu, J.C. (1990). “Proceedings of studies of the red panda.” Chinese Scientific Publishing, Beijing, China [în chineză].[3]
  • Wilson, Don E. and DeeAnn M. Reeder. (2005). Mammal of Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.