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Taxon: Subfamily Heteromyinae Gray, 1868 - pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice (mammal)

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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Heteromyidae

Original position

Questionably Geomyidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845

Original entries

Questionably †Proheteromys (Genus) Wood, 1932

Subsequent entries

*Dipodomyini* (Tribe) Gervais, 1853
†*Harrymyini* (Tribe) Wahlert, 1991		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 183.
*Heteromyini* (Tribe) Gray, 1868
*Perognathini* (Tribe) Coues, 1875		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 184.

Current position

Heteromyidae (Family) Gray, 1868

Ref: J.L. Patton, 1993: 481.

Alternative positions

Geomyidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 183.

Historical positions

*Geomyidae* (Family) Bonaparte, 1845	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 183.
*Heteromyidae* (Family) Gray, 1868	Ref: J.L. Patton, 1993: 481.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2g;12s; †2g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 19 Feb 2022	[2g;12s; †2g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[6g; †11g]
1993	J.L. Patton	[2g;12s]

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