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Taxon: Subfamily Nesomyinae Forsyth Major, 1897 - Madagascan rats (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Original position

Questionably Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably Macrotarsomys (Genus) Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1898

Subsequent entries

*Brachytarsomys* (Genus) Günther, 1875
*Brachyuromys* (Genus) Forsyth Major, 1896
*Eliurus* (Genus) Milne-Edwards, 1885
*Gymnuromys* (Genus) Forsyth Major, 1896
*Hypogeomys* (Genus) Grandidier, 1869
*Nesomys* (Genus) Peters, 1870

Current position

Nesomyidae (Family) Forsyth Major, 1897

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 157. [inferred]

Alternative positions

Muridae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 157.

Historical positions

*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 157.
*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton, 1993: 677; 7, 501.
*Muridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 166.
*Cricetidae* (Family) Fischer, 1817	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 586.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	8g;14s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[7g;14s]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[7g]
1993	G.G. Musser & M.D. Carleton	7g;14s
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[8g];~11s

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Last updated: 1 Feb 2024