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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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