Neotominae
Neotominae is a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. It consists of three tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice. Most of them are found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice.
| Neotomines Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent | |
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| Peromyscus maniculatus | |
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| Subfamily: | Neotominae Merriam, 1894 |
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Neotomines are related to the other two subfamilies of mice in the New World, Sigmodontinae and Tylomyinae. Many authorities place them all in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.
Taxonomy
- Subfamily Neotominae
- Tribe Baiomyini
- Baiomys - Pygmy Mice
- Scotinomys - Brown Mice
- Tribe Neotomini
- Neotoma - Pack Rats
- Xenomys - Magdalena Rat
- Hodomys - Allen's Woodrat
- Nelsonia
- Tribe Ochrotomyini
- Ochrotomys - Golden Mouse
- Tribe Peromyscini
- Peromyscus - Deer Mice
- Reithrodontomys - New World Harvest Mice
- Onychomys - Grasshopper Mouse
- Neotomodon - Mexican Volcano Mouse
- Podomys - Florida Mouse
- Isthmomys - Isthmus Rats
- Megadontomys - Giant Deer Mice
- Habromys
- Osgoodomys - Michoacan Deer Mouse
- Tribe Baiomyini
Related pages
References
- Reeder, S. A., D. S. Carroll, C. W. Edwards, C. W. Kilpatrick, R. D. Bradley. 2006. Neotomine-peromyscine rodent systematics based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40:251-258.
- 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.
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