Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Rhynchomys
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Rhynchomys
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Rhynchomys
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Rhynchomys
Rhynchomys: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Rhynchomys: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Chrotomys Division. Member of the Philippine Old Endemics (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Considered the only genus in Rhynchomyinae by Thomas (1896), who later included Echiothrix (Thomas, 1898b). Phylogenetic analyses of complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences for 13 of the 16 genera of endemic Philippine murines place Rhynchomys in a clade containing Apomys, Chrotomys (including Celaenomys), and Archboldomys (Jansa and Heaney, 2001), which is supported by chromosomal data (Rickart and Heaney, 2...