Melasmothrix Miller and Hollister, 1921

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 : 614

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Melasmothrix Miller and Hollister, 1921 View in CoL . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34:93.

TYPE SPECIES: Melasmothrix naso Miller and Hollister, 1921 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Musser (1982c). Closely related to Tateomys as judged by morphological, ecological, and spermatozoal characters ( Breed and Musser, 1991; Musser, 1982c). Placed in the group of Sulawesian Old Endemics by Musser (1981c).