Thomasomys Coues, 1884

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 749

Thomasomys Coues, 1884 . Am. Nat., 18:1275.

TYPE SPECIES: Hesperomys cinereus Thomas, 1882 .

SYNONYMS: Erioryzomys, Inomys .

COMMENTS: Thomasomyine. A complex genus whose nomenclatural history is intertwined with Aepeomys , Delomys , and Wilfredomys , taxa which have been used as subgenera (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Cabrera, 1961) or as genera (see their accounts). Comparative anatomical studies involving some Thomasomys include Carleton (1973), Hooper and Musser (1964a), and Voss and Linzey (1981); chromosomal numbers of several species published by Gardner and Patton (1976). Revisionary studies required to critically overhaul species taxonomy and to place ranking of various genus-group taxa in a phylogenetic context. Species recognized here basically follow Cabrera (1961).