PaleoDB taxon number: 373817
Full reference: M. D. Carleton and S. L. Olson. 1999. Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha: a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil's continental shelf. American Museum Novitates 3256:1-59
Parent taxon: Sigmodontinae according to M. D. Carleton and S. L. Olson 1999
Sister taxa: Abrothrix, Bensonomys, Chelemys, Chukimys, Cordimus, Delomys, Euneomys, Geoxus, Holochilus, Ichthyomyini, Ichthyurodon, Irenomys, Juliomys, Lundomys, Microryzomys, Miotomodon, Nectomys, Oligoryzomys, Olympicomys, Oryzomyalia, Panchomys, Pseudoryzomys, Reithrodontomys, Rhipidomys, Scolomys, Sigmodontini, Thomasomys, Wiedomyini
Subtaxa: Noronhomys vespuccii
Type: Noronhomys vespuccii