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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
GENUS Neotomodon
| Author: | Merriam, 1898. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 127. | | Type Species: | Neotomodon alstoni Merriam, 1898. | | Comments: | Reithrodontomyini. Conventionally ranked as a genus, later judged closely related to Peromyscus sensu lato (Hooper and Musser, 1964b). Synonymy as a subgenus of Peromyscus advocated by Yates et al. (1979) and Patton et al. (1981), whereas Carleton (1980, 1989) retained Neotomodon as a genus. Various kinds of evidence suggest the phyletic association of Neotomodon, Podomys, and perhaps Habromys (Carleton, 1980; Hooper and Musser, 1964b; Linzey and Layne, 1969; Patton et al., 1981; Stangl and Baker, 1984), although the cladistic results among these studies conflict in detail and on conclusions about rank. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES alstoni | Synonyms: |
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