Oxymycterus inca

O. Thomas, 1900

Inca Hocicudo

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1900-09-01. Descriptions of new rodents from western South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)6(33):294-302.

Original name as described

Oxymycterus inca

Other common names

Hocicudo Castaño del Perú

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1900.7.7.45

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Perené, Ucayali watershed, Department of Junin, E. Peru. Altitude 800 m."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Bolivia · Brazil

Taxonomy notes

previously included juliacae

Taxonomy notes citation

Pacheco, V., Marquez, G., Salas, E., Centty, O. 2011. Mammal diversity in the middle basic on the river Tambopata, Puno, Peru. Review of Peru Biology 18(2): 231-244.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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