Megalomys Trouessart, 1881

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 : 707

Megalomys Trouessart, 1881 . Le Naturaliste, 1:357.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus desmarestii Fischer, 1829 .

SYNONYMS: Moschomys (of Trouessart, 1903), Moschophoromys .

COMMENTS: Named as a subgenus of the all-inclusive Hesperomys but later associated with Oryzomys by Major (1901); typically recognized as an oryzomyine genus endemic to the Lesser Antilles ( Ellerman, 1941; Hall, 1981; Tate, 1932c). Closest mainland relative may be the poorly known Oryzomys hammondi of Ecuador ( Ray, 1962). Both species are extinct but persisted perhaps until the late 1800s ( Ray, 1962; Woods, 1989«).