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
book chapter
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Thomasomys
Coues, 1884
.
Am. Nat., 18:1275
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Hesperomys cinereus
Thomas, 1882
.
SYNONYMS:
Erioryzomys, Inomys
.
COMMENTS: Thomasomyine.
A complex
genus whose nomenclatural history is intertwined with
Aepeomys
,
Delomys
,
and
Wilfredomys
,
taxa which have been used as subgenera (e.g.,
Ellerman, 1941
; Cabrera, 1961) or as genera (see their accounts). Comparative anatomical studies involving some
Thomasomys
include
Carleton (1973)
,
Hooper and Musser (1964a)
, and
Voss and Linzey (1981)
; chromosomal numbers of several species published by
Gardner and Patton (1976)
. Revisionary studies required to critically overhaul species taxonomy and to place ranking of various genus-group taxa in a phylogenetic context. Species recognized here basically follow Cabrera (1961).