Isthmomys

Isthmomys
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Neotominae
Tribe:	Reithrodontomyini
Genus:	Isthmomys Hooper & Musser, 1964
Type species
Megadontomys flavidus[1]
Species
Isthmomys flavidus Isthmomys pirrensis

Isthmomys is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, belonging to the tribe Reithrodontomyini. Species are:

• Yellow isthmus rat (Isthmomys flavidus)
• Mount Pirri isthmus rat (Isthmomys pirrensis)

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Further reading

• Anthony, H. E. 1916. Panama Mammals Collected in 1914–1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35: 357–377.
• Bangs, Outram. 1902. Chiriqui Mammalia: Megadontomys flavidus. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 8: 27–29.
• Carleton, M. D. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae.
• Cuartas-Calle, Carlos Auturo and Javier Muñoz-Arango. 2003. Lista de los Mamiferos (Mammalia: Theria) del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 4, no. 1: 65–78.
• Goldman, Edward. 1912. New Mammals from Eastern Panama. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 60, no. 2: 1–18.
• Goldman, Edward. 1920. Mammals of Panama. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 69, no. 5.
• Goodwin, George G. 1946. Mammals of Costa Rica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 87, no. 5.
• Hall, E.R. and K.R. Kelson. 1958 The Mammals of North America. New York: Ronald Press Co.
• Handley, Charles. 1966. Checklist of the Mammals of Panama. In Ectoparasites of Panama, ed. Wenzel and Tipton:753–796. Chicago, Illinois: Field Museum of Natural History.
• Hooper, Emmet T. and Guy Musser. 1964. Notes on the classification of the rodent genus Peromyscus. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, no. 635.
• Linzey, Alicia and James N. Layne. 1974. Comparative morphology of spermatozoa of the rodent genus Peromyscus (Muridae). American Museum Novitates, no. 2532.
• Linzey, Alicia and James N. Layne. 1969. Comparative morphology of the male reproductive tract in the rodent genus Peromyscus (Muridae). American Museum Novitates, no. 2355: 1–46.
• Middleton, John R. 2007. A Systematic Revision of Genus Isthmomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Master's Thesis, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas.
• Stangl, F. B. and R. J. Baker. 1984. Evolutionary relationships in Peromyscus: congruence in chromosomal, genic, and classical data sets. Journal of Mammalogy 65, no. 4: 643–654.