Neotominae

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Neotomines Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent
Onychomys leucogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Superfamily: Muroidea Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Neotominae Merriam, 1894
Tribes
Baiomyini Neotomini Ochrotomyini Peromyscini

Neotominae is a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. It consists of three tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice.

Neotomines are related to the other two subfamilies of mice in the New World, Sigmodontinae and Tylomyinae. Many authorities place them all in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

[edit] Taxonomy

• Subfamily Neotominae
  • Tribe Baiomyini
    • Baiomys - Pygmy Mice
    • Scotinomys - Brown Mice
  • Tribe Neotomini
    • Neotoma - Pack Rats
    • Xenomys - Magdalena Rat
    • Hodomys - Allen's Woodrat
    • Nelsonia
  • Tribe Ochrotomyini
    • Ochrotomys - Golden Mouse
  • Tribe Peromyscini
    • Peromyscus - Deer Mice
    • Reithrodontomys - New World Harvest Mice
    • Onychomys - Grasshopper Mouse
    • Neotomodon - Mexican Volcano Mouse
    • Podomys - Florida Mouse
    • Isthmomys - Isthmus Rats
    • Megadontomys - Giant Deer Mice
    • Habromys
    • Osgoodomys - Michoacan Deer Mouse

[edit] References

• Reeder, S. A., D. S. Carroll, C. W. Edwards, C. W. Kilpatrick, R. D. Bradley. 2006. Neotomine-peromyscine rodent systematics based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40:251-258.

• 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.

[edit] See also

• New World rats and mice