Subfamily Heteromyinae Gray, 1868 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868:201.

COMMENTS: Contains the Recent genera Heteromys and Liomys, following Wood (1935), Wahlert (1985), and Ryan (1989a). However, a review of the generic limits is warranted since biochemical data (Rogers, 1990) suggested that Heteromys as currently defined is paraphyletic relative to Liomys .