Micromys Dehne, 1841

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 : 620

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Micromys Dehne, 1841 View in CoL . Micromys agilis, Ein Neues Säugetier der Fauna von Dresden, p. 1.

TYPE SPECIES: Micromys agilis Dehne, 1841 View in CoL (= Mus minitus Pallas, 1771 ).

COMMENTS: Only one extant species is recognized by most workers, but at least five others are documented by Miocene ( Storch, 1987) and Pliocene ( Weerd, 1979) fossils. Whether the extant samples represent one or more species has yet to be resolved by critical systematic revision.