Steatomys Peters, 1846 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 258.

REVIEWED BY: R. D. Owen (RDON).

COMMENT: Reviewed by Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978, in Schütter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 53-76, and Coetzee, 1977, Part 6.8:1-4. This genus is in need of further revision; see Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978:53-54, and Schütter, 1978, Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 212. Subfamily Dendromurinae; see comment under Cricetidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008110000000.