Malagasy rats
Malagasy mice
nesomyinae latin

The Malagasy rats and mice are the sole members of the subfamily Nesomyinae.

Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)

Malagasy rats and mice, climbing mice, African rock mice, swamp mice, pouched rats, and the white-tailed rat are in this family.

They are members of the family Nesomyidae, which contains other African muroids such as climbing mice, Malagasy mice, and the white-tailed rat.

They are all members of the muroid subfamily Nesomyinae.

Nesomyinae contains 9 genera and 27 species.

The Malagasy rats and mice are the sole members of the subfamily Nesomyinae.

Rodents are poorly represented on the island with only a handful of native species, all belonging to the subfamily Nesomyinae.

It has been reported that the Nesomyinae is not monophyletic, but this has not been supported in other analyses.

Other researchers place the Nesomyinae into a large family, Muridae, along with all members of the superfamily Muroidea.

See Nesomyinae for other Madagascar rodents (also known as "voalavo" in Malagasy).

Voalavo is part of the subfamily Nesomyinae, which includes nine genera that are all restricted to Madagascar.

Voalavo is a genus of rodent in the subfamily Nesomyinae, found only in Madagascar.

Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)

Systematic studies of Madagascar's endemic rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): a new genus and species from the central highlands.

Nesomys is classified in the exclusively Madagascan subfamily Nesomyinae of the family Nesomyidae, which includes various African rodents.

The Holocene distribution of Hypogeomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae) on Madagascar.

A new species of Macrotarsomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae) from southwestern Madagascar (subscription required).

A new species of rodent from the montane forest of central eastern Madagascar (Muridae: Nesomyinae: Voalavo).

Monticolomys is a genus of rodents within the subfamily Nesomyinae of the family Nesomyidae, and is closely related to Macrotarsomys.

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the native rodents of Madagascar (Muridae, Nesomyinae): a test of the single origin hypothesis.

Within Nesomyinae, it is most closely related to the genus Eliurus, and DNA sequence data suggest that the current definitions of these two genera need to be changed.

Before the discoveries of Monticolomys (published in 1996) and Voalavo (1998), all of the known genera within Nesomyinae were quite distinct from each other, so much so that phylogenetic relationships among them long remained obscure.

The indigenous rodents of Madagascar, the Nesomyinae, prior to the discovery of Monticolomys comprised seven very distinctive genera-so distinct from each other that some have found it difficult to accept that they are closely related.