Brachyuromys Major 1896

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 930-955 : 948

Brachyuromys Major 1896

Brachyuromys Major 1896 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 322.

Type Species: Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major 1896

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Brachyuromys betsileoensis (Bartlett 1879)

Species Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major 1896

Discussion: Ellerman (1941) allied Brachyuromys as a tribe within Tachyoryctinae, an affinity earlier considered plausible by Major (1897). Cladistic interpretation of cytochrome b sequences instead indicates close kinship with Nesomys ( Jansa et al., 1999) . Specific discrimination and distributions reviewed by Jansa and Carleton (2003 b).