Megadontomys Merriam, 1898

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

Megadontomys Merriam, 1898 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 115.

REVIEWED BY: S. Anderson (SA); W. Caire (WC); R. P. Canham (RPC); M. D. Carleton (MDC); L. N. Carraway (LNC); D. G. Huckaby (DGH); C. W. Kilpatrick (CWK); T. E. Lawlor (TL); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP); G. Urbano-V. (GUV).

COMMENT: Included as a subgenus of Peromyscus by Hall, 1981:716, Musser, 1964, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 636:13- 19, and Hooper, 1968, in King, ed., The Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia) , p. 38. Linzey and Layne, 1974, Am. Mus. Novit., 2532:1-20, studied the morphology of the spermatozoa. Reviewed by Carleton, 1980:118, 124, who considered Megadontomys a distinct genus.