Phloeomys Waterhouse 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1437

Phloeomys Waterhouse 1839

Phloeomys Waterhouse 1839 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839: 108.

Type Species: Mus (Phloeomys) cumingi Waterhouse 1839

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Phloeomys cumingi Waterhouse 1839

Species Phloeomys pallidus Nehring 1890

Discussion: Phloeomys Division. Part of the Philippine Old Endemics; phylogenetic relationships relative to genera in other areas of Indo-Australian region unresolved ( Musser and Heaney, 1992). Originally included with the Asian Nesokia (in reality, a phylogenetic close relative of Bandicota and Rattus ) in the Phloeomyinae by Alston (1976) because of their similar laminar molar occulusal patterns, but listed as the only genus in that subfamily by Thomas (1896). Considered a member of Phloeomyinae by Tate (1936) and Simpson (1945), along with Chiropodomys , Coryphomys , Crateromys , Lenomys , Mallomys , and Pogonomys , but except for Crateromys , no data supports such an allocation ( Ellerman, 1949 a; our research). Phylogenetic analyses of complete mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences for 13 of the 16 genera of endemic Philippine murines join Phloeomys , Crateromys , and Batomys in a clade separate from other Old Endemic genera ( Jansa and Heaney, 2001).