Phloeomys Waterhouse, 1839 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839:108.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus (Phloeomys) cumingi Waterhouse, 1839 .

COMMENTS: Part of the Philippine Old Endemics, but actual phylogenetic relationships relative to other members of that group and to genera in other areas of IndoAustralian region unclear (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Listed as a member of Phloeomyinae by Simpson (1945), along with Chiropodomys, Coryphomys, Crateromys, Lenomys, Mallomys, and Pongonomys, but no data supports such an allocation.