Brucepattersonius iheringi

(O. Thomas, 1896)

Ihering's Brucie

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1896-10-01. On new small mammals from the Neotropical region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18(106):301-314.

Original name as described

Oxymycterus Iheringi

Other common names

Ihering's Akodont · Ihering's Hocicudo

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1886.9.16.8

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul," Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

includes guarani, misionensis, paradisus; may include the fossil taxon talpinus (Winge, 1887), which would have priority over iheringi, although this has yet to be fully investigated

Taxonomy notes citation

Dias, D. (2016). Sistemática molecular, biogeografia e diversificação de Brucepattersonius (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) (Doctoral dissertation, Masters Dissertation. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória). · Agnolin, F. L., Derguy, M. R., Godoy, I. N., & Chimento, N. R. (2019). Mamíferos argentinos: descripción de nuevas especies delas colecciones de Elio Massoia y Julio R. Contreras (Rodentia,Chiroptera, Carnivora). Historia Natural, 9, 107-181. · Teta, P., D'Elía, G., Jayat, J. P., Gonçalves, P. R., Simões, G., do Prado, R., ... & Schiaffini, M. I. (2020). On the distinction and availability of the new taxa proposed by Agnolin et al. 2019. Mastozoología Neotropical, en prensa, Mendoza, 1-17.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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