Thaptomys Thomas 1916

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1179

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Type Species: Hesperomys subterraneus Hensel 1873

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Thaptomys nigrita (Lichtenstein 1829)

Discussion: Akodontini. Following its description as an akodontine genus, the taxon has been usually retained as a subgenus of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961; Ellerman, 1941; Massoia, 1963 a) or even a full synonym of the nominate subgenus (Reig, 1987). Recently, Hershkovitz (1990 a, 1998) has reasserted the singular morphological traits of the taxon as "definitely non Akodon " and concurred with Thomas’ (1916 c) generic segregation. Cladistic interpretations of cytochrome b sequences portray nigrita as genetically highly divergent from Akodon proper, either as sister group to that genus ( Smith and Patton, 1999), to Necromys (D’Elía et al., 2003), or to the clade Necromys Thalpomys (D’Elía, 2003).

References

Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.

Hershkovitz, P. 1990 a. The Brazilian rodent genus Thalpomys (Sigmodontinae, Cricetidae) with a description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 24: 763 - 783.

Massoia, E. 1963 a. Sobre la posicion sistematica y distribucion geografica de Akodon (Thaptomys) nigrita (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Physis (Buenos Aires), 24: 73 - 80.

Rana, S. A., M. A. Beg, and A. A. Khan. 1998. The pygmy mice of Central Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 30 (2): 91 - 97.

Smith, M. F., and J. L. Patton. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and the radiation of sigmodontine rodents in South America: Evidence from cytochrome b. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 6: 89 - 128.