Heimyscus Misonne 1969

Heimyscus Misonne 1969, Mus . Roy. l'Afrique Cent., Tervuren, Zool., no. 172: 125.

Type Species: Hylomyscus fumosus Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac 1965

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Heimyscus fumosus (Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac 1965)

Discussion: Stenocephalemys Division. A distinctive genus formerly phylogenetically allied with Hylomyscus . DNA/DNA hybridization experiments, for example, place Heimyscus fumosus closer to Hylomyscus stella than to the species of Praomys, Myomyscus, and Mastomys examined (Chevret et al., 1994), which is reflected by nuclear IRBP sequences in which Heimyscus fumosus joins H. stella and H. parvus in a monophyletic group (Lecompte, 2003). Analyses of complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences, however, indicate Heimyscus to be phylogenetically divergent from Hylomyscus and apparently more closely related to Praomys (Lecompte et al., 2002 b) .