After McKenna & Bell, 1997, with Recent species from Nowak, 1991
<==o Moschidae (myskdeers; myskihirvet) |?- †Hispanomeryx |--o †Dremotherium Geoffroy, 1833 [Dromotheriinae Ginsburg, Heintz, 1966] | |-- †D. quercyi | `-- †D. guthi Jehenne, 1987 `--+--o †Blastomerycinae | |-- †Blastomeryx [Parablastomeryx, Problastomeryx, Pseudoblastomeryx] | |-- †Machaeromeryx | `-- †Longirostromeryx `--o Moschinae (nykymyskihirvet) |-- †Micromeryx [Orygotherium von Meyer, 1838 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997] `--o Moschus ()? |--o M. chrysogaster (himalajanmyskihirvi) | |-- M. c. sifanicus (vuoristomyskihirvi) | `-- M. c. chrysogaster()? |-- M. leucogaster [ssp.=>M. chrysogaster] ()? |-- M. fuscus (myskihirvi) |-- M. berezovskii (myskihirvi) `-- M. moschiferus (myskihirvi)
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631 - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's Mammals of the World; Part 1.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xlviii-642-lxiii - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's mammals of the World; Part 2.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xii-643-1629 - Rössner, G. E. & Mörs, T., 2001: A new record of the enigmatic Eurasian Miocene ruminant artiodactyl Orygotherium.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #3, pp. 591-595