Talk:Glires

I don't know if the text is wrong or if the picture is wrong, but lemurs are neither rodents nor lagomorphs, so if this group doesn't include primates, the picture needs to be changed. If it does include primates (which I doubt) then the text needs to be changed. I can't access the articles, so I don't know. Dave (talk) 00:30, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * Based on the article Euarchontoglires; it seems you are correct and the lemur is not an example of a Glires species (though it is the very illustration used in the Eurachontoglires article).  I borrowed the picture from mountain beaver to illustrate Glires.

I can find any mention of the name "Myochonta" anywhere. And it doesn't make much sense (myo- mouse? + -chonta from archonta?) Could someone provide a reference? Bennetto 05:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Elephant Shrews and Aardvarks
According to the Afrotheia, it suggested that elephant shrews, and probably aardvarks may be related to the glires. Should we add that as a classiforcation problem, or add elephant shrews and aardvarks together to this group, and changed the name to glireungulate? From User:4444hhhh
 * We certainly shouldn't be making up new names for old, outdated hypotheses. The term that was used for Glires + Macroscelidea was Anagalida.  No one has really hypothesized that aardvarks are related to Glires and that's not what the Afrotheria article says.  They were thought to have ties to the ungulates.  --Aranae 04:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Common Features
Would it make sense to discuss what glires generally have in common? eg, teeth continually grow, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ErikHaugen (talk • contribs) 19:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * They seem to have large eyes. Male mammals are meant to be turned on females with large eyes, and rodents need to reproduce before some fox eats them up....something like that.88.89.69.34 (talk) 01:45, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah there should be something more in this article besides evolution. Everyone always knew rodents and lagomorphs went together, didn't need DNA telling them that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.186.125 (talk) 07:23, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

IPA tag
I don't know anything about IPA, but the etymology is from the Latin word glis, glires. --Aranae (talk) 16:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I gather that above comment is due to a previous version. Latin is read as if the language of the speaker (so English): /ˈglaɪri:z/ with or without the : as if written glyrees or glyris. The reason why the i becomes a diphthong is due to first syllable accents and how ablauts work in English (aka. English pronunciation is secretly like German, but we pretend it to be like French). --Squidonius (talk) 02:20, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

"the" Glires hypothesis
Among the various possibilities what is "the" Glires hypothess mentioned in the current version?Wetman (talk) 21:09, 4 March 2017 (UTC)