Chibchanomys Voss, 1988

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 : 699

Chibchanomys Voss, 1988 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 188:321.

TYPE SPECIES: Ichthyomys trichotis Thomas, 1897 .

COMMENTS: Ichthyomyine. Described as a species of Ichthyomys , trichotis was thereafter associated first with Rheomys (Cabrera, 1961; Tate, 1932/1) and then Anotomys ( Handley, 1976) . Generic distinctiveness and phylogenetic relationships substantiated by Voss (1988).