Nectomys Peters, 1861

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 : 709

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Nectomys Peters, 1861 . Abh. König. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1860: 151 [1861].

TYPE SPECIES: Mus squamipes Brants, 1827 .

SYNONYMS: Potamys .

COMMENTS: Oryzomyine. R. J. Baker et al. (1983a) evaluated G-banded karyotypes of Nectomys with respect to other oryzomyines. Revised by Hershkovitz (1944), then including Sigmodontomys as a subgenus; Gardner and Patton (1976) urged removal of Sigmodontomys to Oryzomys .