Hylomyscus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Cladus: Boreosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Tribus: Praomyini
Genus: Hylomyscus
Species (21): H. aeta – H. alleni – H. anselli – H. arcimontensis – H. baeri – H. carillus – H. denniae – H. endorobae – H. grandis – H. heinrichorum – H. kerbispeterhansi – H. mpungamachagorum – H. pamfi – H. parvus – H. pygmaeus – H. simus – H. stanleyi – H. stella – H. thornesmithae – H. vulcanorum – H. walterverheyeni

Name

Hylomyscus Thomas, 1926: 174

• Type species: Epimys aeta Thomas, 1911, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Thomas, O. 1926. The generic position of certain African Muridae, hitherto referred to Aethomys and Praomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 9 17(99): 174–179. DOI: 10.1080/00222932608633387 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Carleton, M.D. & Stanley, W.T. 2005. Review of the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) in Tanzania, with a description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(3): 619–646. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[619:ROTHDC]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Carleton, M.D., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C. & Stanley, W.T. 2006. Review of the Hylomyscus denniae group (Rodentia: Muridae) in eastern Africa, with comments on the generic allocation of Epimys endorobae Heller. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119(2): 293–325. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[293:ROTHDG]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Nicolas, V., Wendelen, W., Barrière, P., Dudu, A. & Colyn, M. 2008. Morphometric variation in Hylomyscus alleni and H. stella (Rodentia: Muridae), and description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy 89(1): 222–231. DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-286.1 Reference page. 
• Nicolas, V., Olayemi, A., Wendelen, W. & Colyn, M. 2010. Mitochondrial DNA and morphometrical identification of a new species of Hylomyscus (Rodentia: Muridae) from West Africa. Zootaxa 2579(1): 30–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2579.1.2 Reference page. 
• Demos, T.C., Agwanda, B. & Hickerson, M.J. 2014. Integrative taxonomy within the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) and a new species from Kenya. Journal of Mammalogy 95(1): E1–E15. DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-268 Reference page. 
• Carleton, M.D., Banasiak, R.A. & Stanley, W.T. 2015. A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zootaxa 4040(2): 101–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.1. Reference page. 
• Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Hutterer, R., Doty, J.B., Malekani, J.M., Moyer, D.C., Krásová, J., Bryja, J., Banasiak, R.A. & Demos, T.C. 2020. Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. Bonn zoological Bulletin 69(1): 55–83. DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.055 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: African Wood Mice