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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Nesomyinae
GENUS Nesomys
| Author: | Peters, 1870. | | Citation: | Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr., Berlin: 54. | | Type Species: | Nesomys rufus Peters, 1870. | | Comments: | Major (1897) synonymized Jentink’s (1879a) Hallomys (type species = H. audeberti) under Nesomys and allocated the genus to the Cricetinae, as did Ellerman (1941). Sister genus of Brachyuromys according to phylogenetic interpretation of mitochondrial DNA sequences (Jansa et al., 1999). Ellerman (1941, 1949) accepted audeberti and lambertoni as species as described, but F. Petter (1972c, 1975a) arranged them as subspecies of N. rufus, synonymies observed in systematic checklists (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Honacki et al., 1982; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Carleton and Schmidt (1990) indicated that each is morphologically highly distinctive, and Ryan et al. (1993) encountered N. audeberti and N. rufus in sympatry. Distributions, ecology, and behavior reviewed by Ryan (2003). |
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