Wiedomys Hershkovitz, 1959. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 72:5. TYPE SPECIES: Mus pyrrhorhinos Wied-Neuwied, 1821. COMMENTS: Wiedomyine, a tribe formally diagnosed by Reig (1980) to contain the problematic form pyrrhorhinos, which has been variously classified as a species of Oryzomys or Thomasomys (see Tate, 1932/; Osgood, 1933d; and Hershkovitz, 1959b), and a new fossil genus, Cholomys, recovered from E Argentina.

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Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 751, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098