Pitymys McMurtrie, 1831

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 477-504 : 499

Pitymys McMurtrie, 1831 . Cuvier's Anim. Kingdom, Amer, ed., 1:434.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); S. R. Leffler (SRL); W. D. Severinghaus (WDS).

COMMENT: Chaline and Mein, 1979, Corbet, 1978: 106, and most European authors treat Pitymys as a genus; but see Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:259. Includes as subgenera or as synonyms: Blanfordimys, Herpetomys, Meridiopitymys, Neodon , Parapitymys , Pedomys, and Phaiomys; see Corbet, 1978:106. Palearctic species revised by Kratochvil, 1970, Prirodoved. Pr. Ustavia. Cesk. Acad. Ved. Brno, 4(12):l-63, and Kratochvil and Kral, 1974, Zool. Listy, 23:289-302. WDS, on the basis of examination of North American taxa, treated Pitymys as as subgenus of Microtus ; see Severinghaus, 1981, J. Tenn. Acad. Sci., 56:20-22; SRL and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:201, agree.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008071000000 as Blanfordimys .