Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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755
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Nesoryzomys
Heller, 1904
.
Proc.
California
Acad. Sci., 3:241
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Nesoryzomys narboroughi
Heller, 1904
(=
Oryzomys indefessus
Thomas, 1899
).
COMMENTS: Oryzomyine. Realigned as a subgenus of
Oryzomys
by
Ellerman (1941)
, following the comments of
Goldman (1918)
. Morphological, genic, and karyological information, however, sustains the generic separation of
Nesoryzomys
(
Beaufort, 1963
;
Gardner and Patton, 1976
;
Patton and Hafner, 1983
) and intimates that the group is an old
Galapagos
immigrant, originating
ca.
3-3.5 mya (see
Patton and Hafner, 1983
).