Punomys Osgood, 1943 . J. Mammal., 24:369.

TYPE SPECIES: Punomys lemminus Osgood, 1943 .

COMMENTS: Generic-level affinities uncertain (Osgood, 1943; Reig, 1980, 1984), although formally assigned to Tribe Phyllotini by Vorontsov (1959) and Olds and Anderson (1989).