Oxymycterus itapeby

Peçanha, Quintela, Jorge Ribas, S. L. Althoff, Maestri, G. L. Gonçalves, & de Freitas, 2019

Itapevi 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

Authority citation

Peçanha, W.T., Quintela, F.M., Jorge Ribas, L.E., Althoff, S.L., Maestri, R., Gonçalves, G.L. and Freitas, T.R.O. de. 2019-04-24. A new species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from a transitional area of Cerrado – Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 100(2):578-598.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz060

Original name as described

Oxymycterus itapeby

Other common names

Itapevi Hocicudo Rat

Type material

MHNCI 3595

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Condomío Vila Verde (23° 35' 41.474" S, 46° 58' 30.59" W), Transurb district, Itapevi, São Paulo, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Peçanha, W. T., Quintela, F. M., Jorge Ribas, L. E., Althoff, S. L., Maestri, R., Gonçalves, G. L., & De Freitas, T. R. (2019). A new species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from a transitional area of Cerrado–Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(2), 578-598.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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