Juliomys ximenezi

A. U. Christoff, E. M. Vieira, L. R. Oliveira, J. W. Gonçalves, V. H. Valiati, & Tomasi, 2016

Araucaria Forest 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

Authority citation

Christoff, A.U., Vieira, E.M., Oliveira, L.R., Gonçalves, J.W., Valiati, V.H. and Tomasi, P.S. 2016-05-19. A new species of Juliomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 97(5):1469-1482.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw082

Original name as described

Juliomys ximenezi

Other common names

Araucaria Forest Juliomys

Type material

MCNU 868

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described; included in the tribe Wiedomyini

Taxonomy notes citation

Christoff, A. U., Vieira, E. M., Oliveira, L. R., Gonçalves, J. W., Valiati, V. H., & Tomasi, P. S. (2016). A new species of Juliomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy, 97(5), 1469-1482. · 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

Not Evaluated

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