Liomys Merriam, 1902

James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 477-486 : 482

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Liomys Merriam, 1902 View in CoL . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15:44.

TYPE SPECIES: Heteromys alleni Coues, 1881 (= L. irroratus alleni View in CoL , see Genoways, 1973).

COMMENTS: Revised by Genoways (1973). Phylogenetic relationships among species and relative to Heteromys presented by Rogers (1989, 1990). Keys to the species of Liomys were presented by Genoways (1973:44-45) and Dowler and Genoways (1978).

References

Dowler, R. C., and H. H. Genoways. 1978. Liomys irroratus. Mammalian Species, 82: 1 - 6.

Genoways, H. H. 1973. Systematics and evolutionary relationships of spiny pocket mice, genus Liomys. Special Publications, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 5: 1 - 368.

Rogers, D. S. 1989. Evolutionary implications of chromosomal variation among spiny pocket mice, genus Heteromys (Order Rodentia). Southwestern Naturalist, 34: 85 - 100.

Rogers, D. S. 1990. Genic evolution, historical biogeography, and systematic relationships among spiny pocket mice (subfamily Heteromyinae). Journal of Mammalogy, 71: 668 - 685.