Eliurus Milne-Edwards, 1885

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 : 678

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Eliurus Milne-Edwards, 1885 . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (Paris), 20: Art. 1 bis.

TYPE SPECIES: Eliurus myoxinus Milne-Edwards, 1885 .

COMMENTS: Genus arrayed as a monotypic tribe within Murinae by Ellerman (1941). Interpreted by Ellerman (1949a) as consisting only of a large polytypic species (E. myoxinus ) and a small monotypic one (E. minor ). Revised by Carleton (1993), who recognized 6 species and summarized their morphological identification and distributions.