Dasymys Peters, 1875

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 : 589

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Dasymys Peters, 1875 View in CoL . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, p. 12.

TYPE SPECIES: Dasymys gueinzii Peters, 1875 View in CoL (= Mus View in CoL incomtus Sundevall, 1847 View in CoL ; see Allen, 1939).

COMMENTS: Chromosomal data summarized by Carleton and Martinez (1991). Closest phylogenetic allies yet to be determined, but many pelage, cranial, and dental traits of Dasymys suggest alliance with Aethomys .