Phloeomys Waterhouse 1839

Phloeomys Waterhouse 1839, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839: 108.

Type Species: Mus (Phloeomys) cumingi Waterhouse 1839

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Phloeomys cumingi Waterhouse 1839

Species Phloeomys pallidus Nehring 1890

Discussion: Phloeomys Division. Part of the Philippine Old Endemics; phylogenetic relationships relative to genera in other areas of Indo-Australian region unresolved (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Originally included with the Asian Nesokia (in reality, a phylogenetic close relative of Bandicota and Rattus) in the Phloeomyinae by Alston (1976) because of their similar laminar molar occulusal patterns, but listed as the only genus in that subfamily by Thomas (1896). Considered a member of Phloeomyinae by Tate (1936) and Simpson (1945), along with Chiropodomys, Coryphomys, Crateromys, Lenomys, Mallomys, and Pogonomys, but except for Crateromys, no data supports such an allocation (Ellerman, 1949 a; our research). Phylogenetic analyses of complete mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences for 13 of the 16 genera of endemic Philippine murines join Phloeomys, Crateromys, and Batomys in a clade separate from other Old Endemic genera (Jansa and Heaney, 2001).