Pseudohydromys
Genus of rodents
Pseudohydromys Temporal range: Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Hydromyini |
Genus: | Pseudohydromys Rümmler, 1934 |
Type species | |
Pseudohydromys murinus | |
Species | |
Pseudohydromys berniceae Pseudohydromys carlae Pseudohydromys eleanorae Pseudohydromys ellermani | |
Synonyms | |
Mayermys Laurie & Hill, 1954 |
Pseudohydromys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to New Guinea. It contains the following species:[1]
- Bishop's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys berniceae) [2]
- Huon small-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys carlae) [2]
- Laurie's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys eleanorae) [2]
- One-toothed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys ellermani)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys fuscus)
- German's one-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys germani)
- Eastern shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus)
- Musser's shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys musseri)
- Western shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys occidentalis)
- Woolley's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys patriciae) [2]
- Southern small-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys pumehanae) [2]
- White-bellied moss mouse (Pseudohydromys sandrae) [2]
It was not until a 2009 revision that a general idea of the true taxonomic content of this genus was realized.
References
- ^ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c d e f Helgen, Kristofer M.; Helgen, Lauren E. (2009). "Chapter 8. Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Moss-mice of New Guinea: A Taxonomic Revision of Pseudohydromys (Muridae: Murinae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 331: 230–313. doi:10.1206/582-8.1.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)
Division
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Heimyscus |
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Hylomyscus (African wood mice) |
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Mastomys (Multimammate rats) |
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Montemys |
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Myomyscus (Multimammate rats) |
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Ochromyscus |
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Praomys (African soft-furred rats) |
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Serengetimys |
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Stenocephalemys (Ethiopian narrow-headed rats) |
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Melomys (Banana rats) |
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Paramelomys |
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Protochromys |
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Solomys (Naked-tailed rats) |
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Uromys (Giant naked-tailed rats) |
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Leptomys |
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Pseudohydromys (New Guinea false water rats) |
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Xeromys |
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- See also
- Aethomys–Chrotomys
- Colomys–Golunda
- Hadromys–Maxomys
- Melasmothrix–Mus
- Oenomys–Pithecheir
- Pogonomys–Pseudomys
- Rattus
- Otomys
- Others
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