Baiomys True, 1894

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 : 695

Baiomys True, 1894 . Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. (1893), 16:758 [1894].

TYPE SPECIES: Hesperomys taylori Thomas, 1887 .

COMMENTS: Peromyscine. Revised by Packard (1960). Relegated to a subgenus of Peromyscus by Osgood (1909) but reinstated as a separate genus by Miller (1912b). Relationship to South American forms (e.g., Calomys ) advanced by Packard (1960) but other studies have disclosed cognate affinity to Scotinomys ( Carleton, 1980; Carleton et al., 1975; Hooper, 1960; Hooper and Musser, 1964a). Karyology evaluated by Yates et al. (1979) and biochemical variation by Calhoun et al. (1989). Hershkovitz (1962) transferred the form hummelincki , erroneously described under Baiomys , to the phyllotine genus Calomys .