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 Chroeomys Thomas, 1916 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 18:340 . TYPE SPECIES: Akodon pulcherrimus Thomas, 1897 (= Akodon jelskii Thomas, 1894 ). COMMENTS: Akodontine. Described as a genus ( Thomas, 1916c ) but afterwards conventionally viewed as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961; Ellerman, 1941 ; Gardner and Patton, 1976 ; Reig, 1987). Among the most genetically divergent akodonts surveyed by Patton et al. (1989) and Smith and Patton (1991) , including species of typical Akodon , Bolomys , and Microxus , and recognized by those authors as a separate genus.