Thamnomys Thomas 1907
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Thamnomys

description: <i>Thamnomys</i> Thomas, 1907. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7,19: 121. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Thamnomys venustus</i> Thomas, 1907. COMMENTS: Despite assertions that species of <i>Thamnomys</i> and <i>Grammomys</i> are in the same monophyletic group but separable at the subgeneric level (Allen, 1939; Hatt, 1940a; Hollister, 1919; Misonne, 1974; Petter and Tranier, 1975; and others—see references in Meester et al., 1986), <i>Thamnomys</i> is a distinct genus, as explained by Ellerman (1941), Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984), Misonne (1969), Rosevear (1969), and other workers (see references in Meester et al., 1986). Those systematists, however, also included <i>rutilans</i> in <i>Thamnomys,</i> but we place it in <i>Grammomys</i> pending systematic revision of <i>rutilons.</i> <i>Oenomys</i> is the closest phylogenetic relative, a view presented more than fifty years ago by Hatt (1940a:522): <i>"Oenomys</i> and <i>Thamnomys</i> bear much resemblance to each other, and I am inclined to believe that they represent respectively semiarboreal and arboreal descendants of a common stock."
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 669, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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