Neotominae facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Neotomines Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
Peromyscus maniculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Superfamily:	Muroidea
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae Merriam, 1894
Tribes
Baiomyini Neotomini Ochrotomyini Peromyscini

Neotominae is a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. It consists of three tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice. Most of them are found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, packrats, and grasshopper mice.

Neotomines are related to the other two subfamilies of mice in the New World, Sigmodontinae and Tylomyinae. Many authorities place them all in a single subfamily, Sigmodontinae.

Taxonomy

• Subfamily Neotominae
  • Tribe Baiomyini
    • Baiomys - Pygmy Mice
    • Scotinomys - Brown Mice
  • Tribe Neotomini
    • Neotoma - Pack Rats
    • Xenomys - Magdalena Rat
    • Hodomys - Allen's Woodrat
    • Nelsonia
  • Tribe Ochrotomyini
    • Ochrotomys - Golden Mouse
  • Tribe Peromyscini
    • Peromyscus - Deer Mice
    • Reithrodontomys - New World Harvest Mice
    • Onychomys - Grasshopper Mouse
    • Neotomodon - Mexican Volcano Mouse
    • Podomys - Florida Mouse
    • Isthmomys - Isthmus Rats
    • Megadontomys - Giant Deer Mice
    • Habromys
    • Osgoodomys - Michoacan Deer Mouse

Related pages

• New World rats and mice

• Reeder, S. A., D. S. Carroll, C. W. Edwards, C. W. Kilpatrick, R. D. Bradley. 2006. Neotomine-peromyscine rodent systematics based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40:251-258.
• Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.