Brachyuromys Major, 1896 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18:322.

TYPE SPECIES: Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major, 1896 .

COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941) allied Brachyuromys as a tribe within Tachoryctinae, an affinity earlier considered plausible by Major (1897).