Neotomodon Merriam, 1898

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 713

Neotomodon Merriam, 1898 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:127.

TYPE SPECIES: Neotomodon alstoni Merriam, 1898 .

COMMENTS: Peromyscine. Conventionally ranked as a genus, later judged closely related to Peromyscus sensu lato ( Hooper and Musser, 1964b). Synonymy as a subgenus of Peromyscus advocated by Yates et al. (1979) and J. C. Patton et al. (1981), whereas Carleton (1980, 1989) retained Neotomodon as a genus. Various kinds of evidence suggest the phyletic association of Neotomodon, Podomys, and perhaps Habromys ( Carleton, 1980; Hooper and Musser, 1964b; Linzey and Layne, 1969; J. C. Patton et al., 1981; Stangl and Baker, 1984b).