Heteromyinae Gray, 1868

James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 477-486 : 481

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 .