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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Eropeplus
Miller and Hollister, 1921
.
Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington
, 34:94
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Eropeplus canus
Miller and Hollister, 1921
.
COMMENTS:
Ellerman (1941)
allied
Eropeplus
closely with
Rattus
,
but its nearest phylogenetic relative is Sulawesian
Lenomys
,
an affinity supported by external, cranial, and spermatozoal characters (
Breed and Musser, 1991
;
Musser, 1981c
; Tate, 1936). Spermatozoal morphology of
Eropeplus
and
Lenomys
was unique among Sulawesian taxa sampled (
Breed and Musser, 1991
).