Brachyuromys Major 1896 Brachyuromys Major 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 322. Type Species: Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major 1896 Species and subspecies: 2 species: Species Brachyuromys betsileoensis (Bartlett 1879) Species Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major 1896 Discussion: Ellerman (1941) allied Brachyuromys as a tribe within Tachyoryctinae, an affinity earlier considered plausible by Major (1897). Cladistic interpretation of cytochrome b sequences instead indicates close kinship with Nesomys (Jansa et al., 1999). Specific discrimination and distributions reviewed by Jansa and Carleton (2003 b).

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae, pp. 930-955 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 948, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535