Megalomys Trouessart, 1881

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 423

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353031

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7206654

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megalomys Trouessart, 1881
status

 

Megalomys Trouessart, 1881 View in CoL . Le Naturaliste, 1:357.

REVIEWED BY: R. H. Pine (RHP).

COMMENT: Included in Oryzomys by Forsyth Major, 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7: 204-206. M. audreyae , known only as subfossil from Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, may be Holocene; see Hall, 1981:624-625. Subfamily Hesperomyinae ; see comment under Cricetidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008020000000 as Megalomys .

5301410008020001001 for M. audreyae .

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Major, C. I. F. 1901. The musk-rat of Santa Lucia (Antilles). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 7: 204 - 206.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae