Deltamys araucaria

Quintela, Bertuol, E. M. González, Cordeiro-Estrela, de Freitas, & G. L. Gonçalves, 2017

Araucaria Grass Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Quintela, F.M., Bertuol, F., González, E.M., Cordeiro-Estrela, P., Freitas, T.R.O. de and Gonçalves, G.L. 2017-07-17. A new species of Deltamys Thomas, 1917 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) endemic to the southern Brazilian Araucaria Forest and notes on the expanded phylogeographic scenario of _D. kempi_. Zootaxa 4294(1):71-92.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.3

Original name as described

Deltamys araucaria

Type material

FURB 20296

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"São Francisco de Paula municipality." Restricted by U. F. J. Pardiñas in 2017 to "5 km west of Centro de Pesquisas e Conservação da Natureza Pró-Mata/PUCRS, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Quintela, F. M., Bertuol, F., Gonzalez, E. M., Cordeiro-Estrela, P., de Freitas, T. R. O., & Goncalves, G. L. (2017). A new species of Deltamys Thomas, 1917 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) endemic to the southern Brazilian Araucaria Forest and notes on the expanded phylogeographic scenario of D. kempi. Zootaxa, 4294(1), 71-92.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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