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

TYPE SPECIES: Hylomyscus fumosus Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965 .

COMMENTS: A very distinctive genus whose closest phylogenetic affinités have yet to be resolved.