Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Pelomys Peters 1852 Pelomys Peters 1852 , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin , 17: 275 . Type Species: Mus (Pelomys) fallax Peters 1852 Synonyms: Komemys De Beaux 1924 . Species and subspecies: 5 species: Species Pelomys campanae Huet 1888 Species Pelomys fallax Peters 1852 Species Pelomys hopkinsi Hayman 1955 Species Pelomys isseli de Beaux 1924 Species Pelomys minor Cabrera and Ruxton 1926 Discussion: Arvicanthis Division. Definition and phylogenetic position of Pelomys need to be reassessed in context of a systematic revision of arvicanthine murines. In overall morphology, the genus is most closely related to Mylomys and Desmomys , which in turn are members of a group also containing species of Arvicanthis , Lemniscomys , and Rhabdomys ( Musser, 1987 b ) , an alliance corroborated by mtDNA sequences of cytochrome b and 12S and 16S rRNA gene fragments ( Ducroz et al., 2001 ). The latter study indicated Pelomys to be most closely related to Mylomys ( Ducroz et al., 2001 ) and some authors regard them as congeneric (e. g., Heim de Balsac and Bellier, 1967). Analysis of microcomplement fixation of albumin groups Pelomys with Lemniscomys , Rhabdomys , Grammomys , and Thallomys ( Watts and Baverstock, 1995 a ) . Komemys is usually treated as a subgenus for P. hopkinsi and P. isseli (e.g., Delany, 1975 ), but we recognize it here as a synonym of Pelomys . Pelomys is represented by Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils from East Africa (Jaeger, 1976; Jaeger and Wesselman, 1976 ; Wesselman, 1984 ), South Africa ( de Graaff, 1961 ), Algeria ( de Bruijn et al., 1970 ; Jaeger, 1975 ), and outside of Africa on Mediterranean Rhodes Isl ( de Bruijn et al., 1970 , 1996 ); see review by Denys (1999). The early Pliocene record of Pelomys from Afghanistan ( Sen et al., 1979 ) is an example of the extinct Parapelomys ( Brandy et al., 1980 ) .