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)
501
755
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098
1-56098-217-9
7353098
Tarsomys
Mearns, 1905
.
Proc.
U.S.
Natl. Mus., 28:453
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Tarsomys apoensis
Mearns, 1905
.
COMMENTS: Revised by
Musser and Heaney (1992)
who recorded the history of the incorrect inclusion of
Tarsomys
in
Rattus
,
and placed the genus in the group of Philippine New Endemics, although its closest relative has yet to be determined.