Crateromys Thomas 1895

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1310

Crateromys Thomas 1895

Crateromys Thomas 1895 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16: 163.

Type Species: Phloeomys schadenbergi Meyer 1895

Species and subspecies: 4 species:

Species Crateromys australis Musser, Heaney, and Rabor 1985

Species Crateromys heaneyi Gonzales and Kennedy 1996

Species Crateromys paulus Musser and Gordon 1981

Species Crateromys schadenbergi Meyer 1895

Discussion: Phloeomys Division. A Philippine Old Endemic in the same monophyletic group as Batomys and Carpomys ( Musser and Heaney, 1992) . Reviewed by Musser and Gordon (1981) and Musser et al. (1985). Phylogenetic analyses of complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences for 13 of the 16 genera of endemic Philippine murines indicates Crateromys belongs in a clade with Batomys and Phloeomys ( Jansa and Heaney, 2001) . The tie to Phloeomys was suggested an an alternative hypothesis by Musser and Heaney (1992). Except for the phylogenetic link to Phloeomys , no data supports a close relationship between Crateromys and Coryphomys , Lenomys , Pogonomys , Chiruromys , Chiropodomys , and Mallomys , which, along with Crateromys and Phloeomys , were brought together in the Phloeomyinae by Tate (1936), an arrangement followed by Simpson (1945). Placed by Misonne (1969) in a Lenothrix Group of a more inclusive Lenothrix-Parapodemus Division, and in a Batomys Section of a larger Micromys Group by Pavlinov et al. (1995 a). Actual distribution in the archipelago and number of species in the genus have yet to be determined.