Nesomyinae
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Muroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Nesomyidae
Subfamilia: Nesomyinae
Genera (9): Brachytarsomys – Brachyuromys – Eliurus – Gymnuromys – Hypogeomys – Macrotarsomys – Monticolomys – Nesomys – Voalavo
Name
[edit]Nesomyinae Forsyth Major, 1897: 714
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Forsyth Major, C.I. 1897. On the Malagasy Rodent Genus Brachyuromys; and on the Mutual Relations of some Groups of the Muridæ (Hesperomyiræ, Microtinæ, Murinæ, and “Spalacidæ”) with each other and with the Malagasy Nesomyinæ. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(3): 695–722. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03114.x
; BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Carleton, M.D. & Schmidt, D.F. 1990. Systematic Studies of Madagascar's Endemic Rodents (Muroidea, Nesomyinae): an Annotated Gazetteer of Collecting Localities of Known Forms. American Museum Novitates 2987: 1–36. BHL Reference page.
- Carleton, M.D. & Goodman, S.M. 1996. Systematic Studies of Madagascar's Endemic Rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): A New Genus and Species from the Central Highlands. Fieldiana Zoology 85: 231–256. BHL Reference page.
- Carleton, M.D. & Goodman, S.M. 1998. New Taxa of Nesomyine Rodents (Muroidea: Muridae) from Madagascar's Nnorthern Highlands, with Taxonomic Comments on Previously Described Forms. Fieldiana Zoology 90: 163–200. BHL Reference page.
- Musser, G.G. & Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.