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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Neotomodon
Merriam, 1898
.
Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington
, 12:127
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Neotomodon alstoni
Merriam, 1898
.
COMMENTS: Peromyscine. Conventionally ranked as a genus, later judged closely related to
Peromyscus
sensu
lato
(
Hooper and Musser, 1964b
). Synonymy as a subgenus of
Peromyscus
advocated by
Yates et al. (1979)
and J. C. Patton et al. (1981), whereas
Carleton (1980
, 1989) retained
Neotomodon
as a genus. Various kinds of evidence suggest the phyletic association of
Neotomodon, Podomys,
and perhaps
Habromys
(
Carleton, 1980
;
Hooper and Musser, 1964b
;
Linzey and Layne, 1969
; J. C. Patton et al., 1981;
Stangl and Baker, 1984b
).