Calomys Waterhouse 1837
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Calomys

description: <i>Calomys</i> Waterhouse, 1837. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:21. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus (Calomys) bimaculatus</i> Waterhouse, 1837 (= <i>Mus laucha</i> Fischer, 1814). SYNONYMS: <i>Hesperomys.</i> COMMENTS: Phyllotine. Cladistic position unclear, but generally viewed as a primitive clade relative to other phyllotine genera (Hershkovitz, 1962; Pearson and Patton, 1976). Possible relationship of <i>Calomys</i> to North American Pliocene form <i>Bensonomys</i> debated by Baskin (1978, 1986) and Reig (1980). Generic revision by Hershkovitz (1962), who reduced the previously-recognized 10-15 species (e.g., Cabrera, 1961; Ellerman, 1941) to only four, two of which, <i>laucha</i> and <i>callosus,</i> have been later shown to be species complexes (Corti et al., 1987; Massoia et al., 1968; Pearson and Patton, 1976; Reig, 1986; Williams and Mares, 1978). Regional names, however, are sometimes employed in contradictory or inconsistent fashion, which leaves unsettled the question of relationship to extraregional forms and the identification of older synonyms to be employed. The species listed here, their distributional extent, and the allocation of synonyms must be viewed cautiously pending another generic revision.
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 697, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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