Heteromyinae
Subfamily of rodents / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the spiny pocket mouse, Chaetodipus spinatus, in heteromyid subfamily Perognathinae.
Heteromyinae is a subfamily of rodents in the family Heteromyidae,[2] commonly known as spiny pocket mice. It contains a single extant genus, Heteromys, as well as the extinct genera Diprionomys and Metaliomys.[1] Heteromys was recently enlarged by inclusion of the members of formerly recognized heteromyine genus Liomys, which was found to be paraphyletic.[3]
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Heteromyinae | |
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Heteromys desmarestianus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Heteromyidae |
Subfamily: | Heteromyinae Gray, 1868 |
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