New extant family of Rodentia

[Robin Leech]

Hey, Ken,
That is the way of things for birds, mammals, snakes and lizards, and
perhaps other groups.
Look at Latimeria for fish.
I saw a large wild bovid, with huge horns like a Texas longhorn, in the
montane areas of Vietnam in 1960.
No one else had seen one there before. I reported it, but as the war was
just starting, I am not sure just
how far the information went.  Who knows, the war may have killed them all.
It was higher at its
shoulder than I am tall, and I am 6'2" (188 cm).  Beautiful creature.  I was
about 5-7 m from it.
Robin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman2 at YAHOO.COM>
To: <TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: New extant family of Rodentia


> Dear All,
>      The paper on the new family of Rodentia has apparently been online
> since about April 7th.  The printed version should be going out this week
> (we shall see).  In any case, it is a little disturbing to learn that this
> important new rodent was first discovered in a meat market.  But then
> again, it probably isn't being persecuted the way the passenger pigeon
> was.  Got to put it into a broader historical perspective.
>  ---Ken Kinman
>