Geoxus lafkenche

Teta & D'Elía, 2020

Guafo Island Long-clawed Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Abrotrichini
Genus : Geoxus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Teta, P. and D'Elía, G. 2020-05-30. Establishing the availability of the sigmodontine binomem _Geoxus lafkenche_ (Rodentia, Supramyomorpha, Cricetidae). Therya 11(2):221-238.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.12933/therya-20-1023

Original name as described

Geoxus lafkenche

Type material

UACH 7339

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Punta Weather, Guafo Island, Región de Los Lagos, Chile.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Chile

Taxonomy notes

recently described; the original description in 2016 didn't meet ICZN standards and was redescribed in 2020 by the same authors

Taxonomy notes citation

Teta, P., & D'Elía, G. (2016). Taxonomical notes on the long-clawed mole mice of the genus Geoxus (Cricetidae), with the description of a new species from an oceanic island of southern Chile. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 27(2). · Teta, P., & D'Elía, G. (2020). Establishing the availability of the sigmodontine binomem Geoxus lafkenche (Rodentia, Supramyomorpha, Cricetidae). THERYA, 11(2), 221.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002383

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Geoxus lafkenche

Teta & D'Elía, 2016

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

lafkenche

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

unpublished_electronic

Type

UACH 7339

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

199

Authority publication

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy

Name usages

  1. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:509) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #100000510) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #100000510) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)

Geoxus lafkenche

Teta & D'Elía, 2020

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

lafkenche

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

UACH 7339

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

221

Authority publication

Therya

Name usages

  1. D'Elía, Canto-Hernández, Ossa, Verde-Arregoitia, Bostelmann, Iriarte, Amador, Quiroga-Carmona, Hurtado, Cadenillas & Valdez (2020:76) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67620)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002383) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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