HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
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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