Highland desert mice and highland gerbil mice

Highland desert mice and highland gerbil mice

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Genus : Eligmodontia

Facts about the genus Eligmodontia, the highland desert mice and highland gerbil mice

A Graomys generic group that includes Andalgalomys and Eligmodontia is also apparent, but its relationships to other phyllotines is obscured by poorly resolved internal nodes in the more species rich and probably paraphyletic genus Phyllotis. (Full text)