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Taxon:
Subfamily
Heteromyinae
Gray, 1868
- pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice
(mammal)
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Heteromyidae (Family) - pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice
..Dipodomyinae (Subfamily)
..†Harrymyinae (Subfamily)
..Perognathinae (Subfamily)
..†Proheteromys (Genus)
..Heteromyinae (Subfamily) - pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice
....†Diprionomys (Genus)
....Heteromys (Genus) - forest spiny pocket mice
....Liomys (Genus) - spiny pocket mice
....†Peridiomys (Genus)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
(Gray, 1868) Alston, 1876
Original name
:
Gray, 1868:200.
Subsequent rank
:
1876. Alston, 1876
: 88.
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Heteromyini
(Tribe)
Gray, 1868
Variants
Current rank
:
Heteromyidae
(Family)
Gray, 1868
Ref:
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011
: 58.
[inferred]
Former rank
:
Heteromyidae
(Family)
Gray, 1868
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 183.
Former rank
:
Heteromyini
(Tribe)
Gray, 1868
Ref:
J.L. Patton, 2005
: 849.
[inferred]
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice
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