Podoxymys Anthony, 1929 . Am. Mus. Novit., 383:4.

TYPE SPECIES: Podoxymys roraimae Anthony, 1929 .

COMMENTS: Akodontine. Systematics little known aside from original comparisons, report on gastric morphology by Carleton (1973), and brief comments of Reig (1987), and new data on systematics and karyology by Pérez-Zapata et al. (1992).