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GENUS Geoxus

Author:Thomas, 1919.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 3: 207.
Type Species:Oxymycterus valdivianus Philippi, 1858.
Comments:Akodontini (S Andean clade). Revised by Osgood (1925, 1943) as part of Notiomys—see remarks under Chelemys. Sister genus to Pearsonomys according to maximum parsimony and likelihood analyses of cytochrome b sequences (Smith and Patton, 1999).
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