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GENUS Macrotarsomys
| Author: | Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898. | | Citation: | Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 1, 4: 179. | | Type Species: | Macrotarsomys bastardi Milne Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898. | | Comments: | Retained within Cricetinae by Ellerman (1941) but more closely related to other nesomyines, in particular Monticolomys (Carleton and Goodman, 1996; Jansa et al., 1999). Lavocat (1978), Chaline et al. (1977), and F. Petter (1990) aligned Macrotarsomys with the Kenyan Miocene fossil Protarsomys, a relationship questioned by Carleton and Schmidt (1990) and Carleton and Goodman (1996). Specific discrimination, distributions, and biology reviewed by Carleton and Goodman (2003c). |
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