Baiomys

Taxobox
name = "Baiomys"
fossil_range = Early Pliocene to Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Neotominae
tribus = Baiomyini
tribus_authority = Musser & Carleton, 2005
genus = "Baiomys"
genus_authority = True, 1894
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Baiomys musculus"
"Baiomys taylori"

"Baiomys" is the genus of New World pygmy mice. It is the only genus in the tribe Baiomyini. It currently contains two extant species:

*"Southern Pygmy Mouse" (Baiomys musculus)
*"Northern Pygmy Mouse" (Baiomys taylori)

References

*Amman, B R., R. D. Bradley. 2003. Molecular evolution in "Baiomys" ("Rodentia:" "Sigmodontinae"): Evidence for a genetic subdivision in "B. musculus". Journal of Mammalogy 85:162-166.
*Integrated Taxonomic Information System [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180367] . Accessed 03 April 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.