Heimyscus Misonne 1969

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1329

Heimyscus Misonne 1969

Heimyscus Misonne 1969 , Mus . Roy. l'Afrique Cent., Tervuren, Zool., no. 172: 125.

Type Species: Hylomyscus fumosus Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac 1965

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Heimyscus fumosus ( Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac 1965)

Discussion: Stenocephalemys Division. A distinctive genus formerly phylogenetically allied with Hylomyscus . DNA/DNA hybridization experiments, for example, place Heimyscus fumosus closer to Hylomyscus stella than to the species of Praomys , Myomyscus , and Mastomys examined (Chevret et al., 1994), which is reflected by nuclear IRBP sequences in which Heimyscus fumosus joins H. stella and H. parvus in a monophyletic group ( Lecompte, 2003). Analyses of complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences, however, indicate Heimyscus to be phylogenetically divergent from Hylomyscus and apparently more closely related to Praomys ( Lecompte et al., 2002 b) .