Rhagamys Major 1905

Rhagamys Major 1905, Geol. Mag., Dec. 5, 2: 503.

Type Species: Mus orthodon Hensel 1856

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Rhagamys orthodon (Hensel 1856)

Discussion: Apodemus Division. Redescribed by Schaub (1938), revised by Brandy (1978) and Martín Suárez and Mein (1998). Consists of two extinct species known only from the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Martín Suárez and Mein (1998:92) explained that "When Forsyth Major (1905) created the genus Rhagamys he considered it to be closer to the group Mäuse (that is what we now call Apodemus and Micromys) than to the group Ratten (what we call Mus and Rattus).".