Auliscomys Osgood, 1915

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

Auliscomys Osgood, 1915 . Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 10:190.

TYPE SPECIES: Reithrodon pictus Thomas, 1884 .

SYNONYMS: Loxodontomys .

COMMENTS: Phyllotine. Alpha systematics revised by Pearson (1958) and Hershkovitz (1962) as part of Phyllotis . Diagnosed as a subgenus of Phyllotis ; variably recognized afterwards at that rank ( Osgood, 1947; Pearson, 1958) or as a genus ( Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Thomas, 1926a). Recent evidence supports the monophyly and probable earlier divergence of Auliscomys ( Pearson and Patton, 1976; Simonetti and Spotorno, 1980).Chromosomal evolution of three of the four extant species presented by Walker and Spotorno (1992).