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GENUS Tympanoctomys
Author: | Yepes, 1940. | Actual Date: | 1941 | Citation: | Rev. Inst. Bact., 9: 569. | Type Species: | Octomys barrerae Lawrence, 1941. | Comments: | Considered a synonym of Octomys (see Reig, 1986:408; Corbet and Hill, 1991:204), but Cabrera (1961:516) and Redford and Eisenberg (1992) considered it a separate genus based on very enlarged tympanic bullae. Octomys identified as sister taxon by molecular data (Gallardo and Kirsch, 2001; Honeycutt et al., 2003), however, Mares et al. (2000) suggested Pipanacoctomys and Salinoctomys are the sister taxa. Although demonstrated to be a tetraploid, its chromosomal evolution is more complicated than a simple duplication of the chromosomes of Octomys (Gallardo et al., 1999). |
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