Tylomyinae

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Tylomyines Fossil range: none
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Superfamily: Muroidea Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Tylomyinae Reig, 1984
Genera
Otonyctomys Nyctomys Tylomys Ototylomys

The subfamily Tylomyinae consists of several species of New World rats and mice including the vesper and climbing rats. They are not as well-known as their relatives in the subfamilies Sigmodontinae and Neotominae. Many authorities place all three of these subfamilies in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

[edit] List of Genera

• Subfamily Tylomyinae
  • Tribe Nyctomyini
    • Otonyctomys
    • Nyctomys
  • Tribe Tylomyini
    • Tylomys
    • Ototylomys

[edit] References

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.

[edit] See also

• New World rats and mice