Oxymycterus wayku
Jayat, D'Elía, Pardiñas, Miotti, & P. E. Ortiz, 2008
Ravine 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
Authority citation
Jayat, J.P., D'Elía, G., Pardiñas, U.F.J., Miotti, M.D. and Ortiz, P.E. 2008-10-22. A new species of the genus Oxymycterus (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the vanishing Yungas of Argentina. Zootaxa 1911:31-51.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1911.1.2Original name as described
Oxymycterus wayku
Type material
CML 7247
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Argentina, Province of Tucumán, Department of Trancas, 10 km by road south of Hualinchay on the trail to Lara (26°19'20.2"S, 65°36'45.52"W, 2316 m)."
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Argentina
Taxonomy notes
recently described
Taxonomy notes citation
Jayat, J. P., D'Elía, G., Pardinas, U. F., Miotti, M. D., & Ortiz, P. E. (2008). A new species of the genus Oxymycterus (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the vanishing Yungas of Argentina. Zootaxa, 1911(1), 31-51.
IUCN Red List status
Vulnerable
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