Praomyini

Praomyini
Temporal range: Late Miocene - present, 11–0 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Tribe: Praomyini
Lecompte et al., 2008
Genera

Chingawaemys
Colomys
Congomys
Heimyscus
Hylomyscus
Mastomys
Montemys
Myomyscus
Nilopegamys
Ochromyscus
Praomys
Serengetimys
Stenocephalemys
Zelotomys

Praomyini is a tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. Species in this tribe are found mostly throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, but one species (Mastomys erythroleucus) is found in North Africa, and another (Ochromyscus yemeni) is found in the Arabian Peninsula.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-12-07
  2. ^ Lecompte, Emilie; Aplin, Ken; Denys, Christiane; Catzeflis, François; Chades, Marion; Chevret, Pascale (2008-07-10). "Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8 (1): 199. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-199. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 2490707. PMID 18616808.
  3. ^ "Early Late Miocene Murine Rodents from the Upper Part of the Nagri Formation, Siwalik Group, Pakistan, with a new fossil calibration point for the Tribe Apodemurini (Apodemus/Tokudaia) | Fossil Imprint" (in Czech). doi:10.2478/if-2017-0011. S2CID 134750740. Retrieved 2021-12-08. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)