Juliomys pictipes

(Osgood, 1933)

Small Red-nosed Tree Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1933-12-11. Two new rodents from Argentina. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 20:11-14.

Original name as described

Thomasomys pictipes

Other common names

Lesser Wilfred's Mouse

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:26814

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Caraguatay, Rio Parana, 100 miles [= 161 km] south of Rio Iguassu, Misiones, Argentina." Clarified by U. F. J. Pardiñas and colleagues in 2007 to "Puerto Carataguay, Misiones, Argentina."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

included in the tribe Wiedomyini

Taxonomy notes citation

Gonçalves, P. R., Christoff, A. U., Machado, L. F., Bonvicino, C. R., Peters, F. B., & Percequillo, A. R. (2020). Unraveling deep branches of the Sigmodontinae tree (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in eastern South America. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27(1), 139-160. · Pires, C., Weksler, M., Lanes, R. O., Viana, M. C., Hingst-Zaher, E., Faria, M. B., ... & Bonvicino, C. R. (2023). Systematics and biogeography of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae): A test of diversification hypothesis using mitochondrial data. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1-18.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Country distribution map

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