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
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Subfamily
Lophiomyinae Milne-Edwards, 1867
.
Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. Mémoires C, III, p. 81
-116.
COMMENTS: See
Carleton and Musser (1984)
for diagnosis and general characterisitics, as well as other discussion. They also summarized past estimates of relationships, which were generally reflected in arrangement of
Lophiomys
in its own family or in a subfamily of either
Cricetidae
or
Nesomyidae
.
Wahlert (1984)
allocated
Lophiomys
and
Cricetops
to
Lophiomyinae
and considered this cluster closely related to
Cricetinae
.