Ichthyomys pinei

Fernández de Córdova, Nivelo-Villavicencio, Reyes-Puig, Pardiñas, & J. Brito, 2020

Pine's Crab-eating Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Fernández de Córdova, J., Nivelo-Villavicencio, C., Reyes-Puig, C., Pardiñas, U.F.J. and Brito, J. 2020-03-26. A new species of crab-eating rat of the genus Ichthyomys, from Ecuador (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Mammalia 84(4):377-391.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2019-0022

Original name as described

Ichthyomys pinei

Type material

MZUA 234

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

La Playa, (3.322772° S, 79.062210° W), Río León, 2600 m, Parroquia and Cantón Nabón, Azuay, Ecuador.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Ecuador

Taxonomy notes

recently described; the LSID for this species was not included in the original online publication in 2019, making the name not available until it was published in print in 2020

Taxonomy notes citation

de Córdova, J. F., Nivelo-Villavicencio, C., Reyes-Puig, C., Pardiñas, U. F., & Brito, J. (2019). A new species of crab-eating rat of the genus Ichthyomys, from Ecuador (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Mammalia, 84(4): 377-391.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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