Chiropodomys Peters, 1869

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 : 583

Chiropodomys Peters, 1869 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 448.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus gliroides Blyth, 1856 .

SYNONYMS: Insulaemus .

COMMENTS: Revised by Musser (1979). Among Asian murines, phylogenetic position of Chiropodomys is ambiguous. Musser and Newcomb (1983) suggested a phylogenetic link between Chiropodomys and Hapalomys , and a weaker tie to Haeromys . Spermatozoal morphology of Chiropodomys resembles that described for species of Hapalomys , Maxomys, and Haeromys, and is also similar to Mus ( Breed and Musser, 1991; Breed and Yong, 1986). Musser (1979) and Musser and Newcomb (1983) recorded other published opinions about relationships of Chiropodomys. No data supports the inclusion of Chiropodomys within the Phloeomyinae—along with Coryphomys , Lenomys, Pogonomys, Mallomys, Phloeomys, and Crateromys— which is where Simpson (1945) listed it.