Neotominae

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Neotomines
Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent

Onychomys leucogaster

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Superfamily:	Muroidea
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae Merriam, 1894

Tribes

Baiomyini
Neotomini
Ochrotomyini
Peromyscini

Neotominae is a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. It consists of three tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice.

Neotomines are related to the other two subfamilies of mice in the New World, Sigmodontinae and Tylomyinae. Many authorities place them all in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

[edit] Taxonomy

Subfamily Neotominae
- Tribe Baiomyini
  - Baiomys - Pygmy Mice
  - Scotinomys - Brown Mice
- Tribe Neotomini
  - Neotoma - Pack Rats
  - Xenomys - Magdalena Rat
  - Hodomys - Allen's Woodrat
  - Nelsonia
- Tribe Ochrotomyini
  - Ochrotomys - Golden Mouse
- Tribe Peromyscini
  - Peromyscus - Deer Mice
  - Reithrodontomys - New World Harvest Mice
  - Onychomys - Grasshopper Mouse
  - Neotomodon - Mexican Volcano Mouse
  - Podomys - Florida Mouse
  - Isthmomys - Isthmus Rats
  - Megadontomys - Giant Deer Mice
  - Habromys
  - Osgoodomys - Michoacan Deer Mouse

[edit] References

Reeder, S. A., D. S. Carroll, C. W. Edwards, C. W. Kilpatrick, R. D. Bradley. 2006. Neotomine-peromyscine rodent systematics based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40:251-258.

Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.