Baiomyini is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are roden ...
s in the subfamily
Neotominae
The Neotominae are a subfamily of the family Cricetidae. They consist of four tribes, 16 genera, and many species of New World rats and mice, predominantly found in North America. Among them are the well-known deer mice, white-footed mice, pac ...
occurring from the southern United States to Panama. It includes the genera ''
Baiomys'' and ''
Scotinomys'', with a total of four living species.
[Musser and Carleton, 2005, pp. 1049, 1085–1086]
References
References
*Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp.
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Neotominae
Mammal tribes
Taxa named by Guy Musser
Taxa named by Michael D. Carleton