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GENUS Irenomys

Author:Thomas, 1919.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 3: 201.
Type Species:Mus tarsalis Philippi, 1900.
Comments:Sigmodontinae incertae sedis. Usually grouped with phyllotines (Olds and Anderson, 1989; Vorontsov, 1959), a tribal affiliation supported by cladistic analyses of morphological traits (Braun, 1993; Steppan, 1995) but not of cytochrome b sequences (D’Elía et al., 2003; Smith and Patton, 1999).
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