Canariomys tamarani Lopez-Martinez and Lopez-Jurado, 1987

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 : 582

Canariomys tamarani Lopez-Martinez and Lopez-Jurado, 1987 . Donana, Pubi, ocas., 2: 10.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canary Islands, Gran Canaria Isl, "La Aldea de San Nicolas de Tolentino" ( Lopez-Martinez and Lopez-Jurado (1987:12) .

DISTRIBUTION: Canary Islands, Gran Canaria Isl.

COMMENTS: An endemic of Gran Canaria Isl known only by specimens from the Holocene to pre-hispanic epoch (about 2000 year before present). Its congener, C. bravoi is documented by Pliocene-Pleistocene fossils from Tenerife Isl in the Canary group ( Crusafont-Pairo and Petter, 1964). A cladistic analysis by Lopez-Martinez and Lopez-Jurado (1987) suggested that C. bravoi and C. tamarani were in the same monophyletic group, one related to the African Pelomys-Arvicanthis assemblage. However, a cladistic analysis by Hutterer et al. (1988) indicated that each species of Canariomys was in a different monophyletic cluster. Careful re-examination of the material will be necessary to resolve these contrasting views.