Macrotarsomys Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 679

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scientific name	Macrotarsomys Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898
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Macrotarsomys Milne-Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898 . Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 1, 4:179.

TYPE SPECIES: Macrotarsomys bastardi Milne Edwards and G. Grandidier, 1898 .

COMMENTS: Retained within Cricetinae by Ellerman (1941). Lavocat (1978) and Chaline et al. (1977) aligned Macrotarsomys with the Miocene Kenyan fossil Protarsomys , a relationship questioned by Carleton and Schmidt (1990).