Tylomyinae

Tylomyines Temporal range: none
Tylomys panamensis (lower animal).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Superfamily:	Muroidea
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Tylomyinae Reig, 1984
Genera
Otonyctomys Nyctomys Tylomys Ototylomys

The subfamily Tylomyinae consists of several species of New World rats and mice including the vesper and climbing rats. They are not as well known as their relatives in the subfamilies Sigmodontinae and Neotominae. Many authorities place all three of these subfamilies in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

List of Species

• SUBFAMILY TYLOMYINAE
  • Tribe Nyctomyini
    • Genus Otonyctomys
      • Hatt's Vesper Rat, Otonyctomys hatti
    • GenusNyctomys
      • Sumichrast's Vesper Rat, Nyctomys sumichrasti
  • Tribe Tylomyini
    • GenusTylomys
      • Chiapan Climbing Rat, Tylomys bullaris
      • Fulvous-bellied Climbing Rat, Tylomys fulviventer
      • Mira Climbing Rat, Tylomys mirae
      • Peters's Climbing Rat, Tylomys nudicaudus
      • Panamanian Climbing Rat, Tylomys panamensis
      • Tumbala Climbing Rat, Tylomys tumbalensis
      • Watson's Climbing Rat, Tylomys watsoni
    • GenusOtotylomys
      • Big-eared Climbing Rat, Ototylomys phyllotis

References

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.

See also

• New World rats and mice