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 Phloeomys Waterhouse, 1839 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:108 . TYPE SPECIES: Mus (Phloeomys) cumingi Waterhouse, 1839 . COMMENTS: Part of the Philippine Old Endemics, but actual phylogenetic relationships relative to other members of that group and to genera in other areas of IndoAustralian region unclear ( Musser and Heaney, 1992 ). Listed as a member of Phloeomyinae by Simpson (1945) , along with Chiropodomys , Coryphomys , Crateromys , Lenomys , Mallomys , and Pongonomys, but no data supports such an allocation.