Myomys Thomas 1915
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Myomys

description: <i>Myomys</i> Thomas, 1915. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16:477. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Epimys colonus</i> (see Allen, 1939; = Mus <i>verreauxii</i> A. Smith, 1834). SYNONYMS: <i>Myomyscus.</i> COMMENTS: Because some workers claimed <i>colonus</i> was unidentifiable and therefore <i>Myomys</i> is invalid, <i>Myomyscus</i> was proposed by Shortridge (1942) to replace <i>Myomys.</i> The problem and historical opinions were reviewed by Roberts (1951), Ellerman et al. (1953), Rosevear (1969), Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1978b) and Meester et al. (1986). Should <i>Myomys</i> really prove to have no nomenclatural status, <i>Myomyscus</i> is the name to use for this group. In aspects of their morphology, the species seem to be arboreal and scansorial counterparts of those in <i>Mastomys,</i> all of which are primarily terrestrial. Some species of <i>Myomys</i> may be closely related to the <i>Mastomys</i> complex. Chromosomal and immunological data related <i>Myomys fumatus</i> to species of <i>Mastomys</i> (Qumsiyeh et al., 1990), and morphometric analyses placed <i>M. verreauxii</i> closer to <i>Mastomys</i> than to other species of <i>Myomys</i> (Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983). Some workers (e.g., Misonne, 1969, 1974; Qumsiyeh et al., 1990) included <i>Myomys</i> and <i>Myomyscus</i> within <i>Praomys.</i> We retain <i>Myomys</i> separate from <i>Mastomys</i> and <i>Praomys</i> until the species within each of these groups are defined, and the systematic relationships among the groups are assessed by careful 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 630, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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