Megadendromus Dieterlen and Rupp, 1978

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 : 544-545

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Megadendromus Dieterlen and Rupp, 1978 . Z. Säugetierk., 43:129.

TYPE SPECIES: Megadendromus nikolausi Dieterlen and Rupp, 1978 .

COMMENTS: A spectacular dendromurine with derived molar traits that were interpreted by Dieterlen and Rupp (1978) to indicate a closer relationship between Dendromurinae and Murinae than was previously suspected.