Nyctomys Saussure, 1860

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 : 715

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Nyctomys Saussure, 1860 . Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 12:106.

TYPE SPECIES: Hesperomys sumichrasti Saussure, 1860 .

COMMENTS: Middle American endemic of enigmatic phyletic position. Placed with thomasomyine group of South American sigmodontines by Hershkovitz (1944, 1962); others have disputed the association with thomasomyines, instead suggesting distant kinship to neotomine-peromyscines or a cladistic origin prior to both North and South American sigmodontines ( Arata, 1964; Carleton, 1980; Haiduk et al., 1988; Hooper and Musser, 1964a; Voss and Linzey, 1981).

References

Arata, A. 1964. The anatomy and taxonomic significance of the male accessory reproductive glands of muroid rodents. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 9: 1 - 42.

Carleton, M. D. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 157: 1 - 146.

Haiduk, M. W., C. Sanchez-Hernandez, and R. J. Baker. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships of Nyctomys and Xenomys to other cricetine genera based on data from G-banded chromosomes. Southwestern Naturalist, 33: 397 - 403.

Hershkovitz, P. 1944. Systematic review of the Neotropical water rats of the genus Nectomys (Cricetinae). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 58: 1 - 101.

Hershkovitz, P. 1962. Evolution of Neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. Fieldiana: Zoology, 46: 1 - 524.

Hooper, E. T., and G. G. Musser. 1964 a. The glans penis in Neotropical cricetines (Family Muridae) with comments on classification of muroid rodents. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 123: 1 - 57.

Voss, R. S., and A. V. Linzey. 1981. Comparative gross morphology of male accessory glands among Neotropical Muridae (Mammalia: Rodentia) with comments on systematic implications. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 159: 1 - 41.