Phyllomys Lund 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1575-1592 : 1580

Phyllomys Lund 1839

Phyllomys Lund 1839 , Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (Paris), ser. 2, 11: 225.

Type Species: Nelomys blainvilii Jordan 1837

Synonyms: Loncheres Lichtenstein 1820 .

Species and subspecies: 12 species:

Species Phyllomys blainvillii (Jordan 1837)

Species Phyllomys brasiliensis Lund 1840

Species Phyllomys dasythrix Hensel 1872

Species Phyllomys kerri Moojen 1950

Species Phyllomys lamarum Thomas 1916

Species Phyllomys lundi Leite 2003

Species Phyllomys mantiqueirensis Leite 2003

Species Phyllomys medius Thomas 1909

Species Phyllomys nigrispinus Wagner 1842

Species Phyllomys pattoni Emmons, Leite, Kock, and Costa 2002

Species Phyllomys thomasi Ihering 1871

Species Phyllomys unicolor Wagner 1842

Discussion: Species of the Brazilian laminated-toothed echimyid rodents have historically been grouped with the nonlaminate-toothed arboreal echimyids under the generic name Echimys (Tate, 1935; Cabrera, 1961; Woods, 1993). These laminated-toothed forms were segregated as Nelomys by Thomas (1916 a, b) and by Emmons and Feer (1990; 1997) and as Phyllomys by Moojen (1952) and Emmons et al. (2002). Emmons et al. (2002) consider Nelomys a junior synonym of Echimys and document that Phyllomys is the next available generic name. Revised by Leite (2003), who described two new species.