Cricetomyinae Roberts 1951
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Subfamily Cricetomyinae Roberts, 1951. Mammals S Africa, p. 434.
SYNONYMS: Saccostomurinae.
COMMENTS: Although initially classified within Murinae (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Simpson, 1945; Thomas, 1897a), systematists acknowledged a closer affinity of African pouched rats to one another than to other murines, a distinction later formalized by Roberts (1951). Subsequent systematic arrangements have followed Petter (1966a) in allying cricetomyines with cricetids (Reig, 1980; Rosevear, 1969). Anatomy of internal cheek pouches supports the monophyly of the subfamily (see Ryan, 1989b); other morphological traits and phylogenetic interpretations summarized by Carleton and Musser (1984). Roberts (1951) segregated Saccostomus, as the lone member of Saccostomurinae, from other African pouched rats (Cricetomyinae), a division not recognized by later systematists (Petter, 1966a; Ryan, 1989b).
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- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350.
- Thomas, O. 1897 a. On the mammals collected in British New Guinea by Dr. Lamberto Loria. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, ser. 2, 18: 1 - 19.
- Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of " The mammals of South Africa " book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp.
- Petter, F. 1966 a. Affinites des genres Beamys, Saccostomus et Cricetomys (Rongeurs, Cricetomyinae). Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, ser. 8 (Sciences Zoologiques), 144: 13 - 25.
- Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.
- Ryan, J. M. 1989 b. Evolution of cheek pouches in African pouched rats (Rodentia: Cricetomyinae). Journal of Mammalogy, 70: 267 - 274.
- Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp.