Lophiomys Milne-Edwards, 1867

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 : 563

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Lophiomys Milne-Edwards, 1867 . L'Institut, Paris, 35:46.

TYPE SPECIES: Lophiomys imhausii Milne-Edwards, 1867 .

SYNONYMS: Phractomys , Phragmomys .

COMMENTS: Closest relatives are Microlophiomys vorontsovi from late Miocene of Ukraine (Topacevski and Skorik, 1984), and Cricetops dormitor from middle Oligocene of Mongolia and Kazakhstan ( Wahlert, 1984).