Parent taxon: Muridae according to S. J. Steppan et al. 2004
See also Lundelius and Turnbull 1999, Ruedas and Kirsch 1997 and Vakil et al. 2023
Sister taxa: Abditomys, Afrocricetodontinae, Allorattus, Anthracomys, Apodemus, Apomys, Arvicanthis, Bullimus, Castillomys, Castorina, Castromys, Centralomys, Chiropodomys, Colomys, Dasymys, Deomyinae, Echymina, Extrarius, Gerbillinae, Gerbua, Grammomys, Hapalomys, Huaxiamys, Huerzelerimys, Hydromina, Hyomys, Karnimata, Kritimys, Lemniscomys, Limnomys, Mastacomys, Micromys, Mikrotia, Murina, Myocricetodontinae, Myotomys, Mysops, Nesokia, Occitanomys, Orientalomys, Papagomys, Paraethomys, Parapelomys, Parapodemus, Parotomys, Pelomys, Praomys, Proceromys, Progonomys, Rhabdomys, Rhagamys, Rhagapodemus, Rhagomys, Saccostomus, Saidomys, Spalacinae, Steatomys, Stephanomys, Tachyoryctoidinae, Tarsomys, Thallomys, Thamnomys, Valerimys, Zelotomys
Subtaxa: Antemus Leopoldamys Leporillus Maxomys Melomys Mus Myomys Niviventer Notomys Otomyini Potwarmus Rattini Rattus Saxatilomys Sundamys Tonkinomys
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (29 collections), the Bahamas (1), Bonaire (1), Cayman Islands (1), China (13), Cook Islands (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (4), Ethiopia (5), France (3), Germany (1), Greece (25), Guam (2), Indonesia (3), Israel (7), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kenya (7), Laos (2), Madagascar (4), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (4), Morocco (6), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (30), Niue (7), Northern Mariana Islands (17), Palau (14), Panama (1), the Philippines (6), Portugal (2), Reunion (1), Romania (1), Rwanda (1), Saint Helena (2), South Africa (7), Spain (1), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (7), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1), Vietnam (2), Yemen (2), Zambia (6)
• Villafranchian of China (2), Hungary (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)
• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), Australia (1), China (2), Ethiopia (2), India (4), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (2), South Africa (5), Tanzania (3), Ukraine (1)
• Turolian of China (3), Greece (1), Spain (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), China (1), India (1), Libya (2), Pakistan (9), Thailand (1)
Total: 286 collections including 446 occurrences