Hadromys Thomas, 1911

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 : 594

Hadromys Thomas, 1911 . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 20:999.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus humei Thomas, 1886 .

COMMENTS: Usually considered closely allied to Arvicanthis and its relatives, especially Golunda , but a combination of primitive and derived cranial and dental traits divorces Hadromys from that group: "best hypothesis now available on phylogenetic affinities is to consider the species of Hadromys to have been derived from some late Miocene ancestor, a species of Karnimata , for example" (Musser, 1987:19).