Biology:Tylomyinae

Short description: Subfamily of rodents

Tylomyines
Tylomys panamensis (lower animal).
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Tylomyinae Reig, 1984
Genera
Otonyctomys Nyctomys Tylomys Ototylomys

The subfamily Tylomyinae consists of several species of New World rats and mice including the vesper and climbing rats. They are not as well known as their relatives in the subfamilies Sigmodontinae and Neotominae. Many authorities place all three of these subfamilies in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

List of Species

• SUBFAMILY TYLOMYINAE
  • Tribe Nyctomyini
    • Genus Otonyctomys
      • Hatt's vesper rat, Otonyctomys hatti
    • Genus Nyctomys
      • Sumichrast's vesper rat, Nyctomys sumichrasti
  • Tribe Tylomyini
    • Genus Tylomys
      • Chiapan climbing rat, Tylomys bullaris
      • Fulvous-bellied climbing rat, Tylomys fulviventer
      • Mira climbing rat, Tylomys mirae
      • Peters's climbing rat, Tylomys nudicaudus
      • Panamanian climbing rat, Tylomys panamensis
      • Tumbala climbing rat, Tylomys tumbalensis
      • Watson's climbing rat, Tylomys watsoni
    • Genus Ototylomys
      • Big-eared climbing rat, Ototylomys phyllotis
      • La Pera big-eared climbing rat, Ototylomys chiapensis

See also

• New World rats and mice

References

• Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=. 
• 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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