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Taxon: Genus Chelemys Thomas, 1903 - greater long-clawed mice (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Original position

Questionably Akodontini (Tribe) Vorontzov, 1959

Current position

Akodontini (Tribe) Vorontzov, 1959

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 147.

Alternative positions

*Hesperomyinae* (Subfamily) Murray, 1866	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 160.
*Sigmodontinae* (Subfamily) Wagner, 1843	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 699.

Historical positions

*Akodontini* (Tribe) Vorontzov, 1959	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 147.
*Sigmodontinae* (Subfamily) Wagner, 1843	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 699.
*Hesperomyinae* (Subfamily) Murray, 1866	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 160.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	3s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	3s
1993	G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton	[2s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[2s]

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