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GENUS Loxodontomys

Author:Osgood, 1947.
Citation:J. Mamm., 28: 172.
Type Species:Mus micropus Waterhouse, 1837.
Comments:Phyllotini. Diagnosed as a subgenus of Phyllotis and maintained at that rank (Pearson, 1958) or as a full synonym (Hershkovitz, 1962). Transferred to Auliscomys, employed as a genus, by Simonetti and Spotorno (1980). Based on morphological studies, however, the species do not cladistically nest within Auliscomys or Phyllotis proper but instead are associated with a clade containing Reithrodon and variably other genera (Braun, 1993; Spotorno et al., 1998; Steppan, 1993, 1995).
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SPECIES micropus

SPECIES pikumche

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