Oecomys franciscorum

Pardiñas, Teta, Salazar-Bravo, Myers, & C. A. Galliari, 2016

Franciscos' Arboreal Rice Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Pardiñas, U.F.J., Teta, P., Salazar-Bravo, J., Myers, P. and Galliari, C.A. 2016-05-05. A new species of arboreal rat, genus Oecomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Chaco. Journal of Mammalogy 97(4):1177-1196.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw070

Original name as described

Oecomys franciscorum

Other common names

Franciscos' Oecomys

Type material

CNP 4260

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

0.4 km NW of the junction between Ruta Nacional 11 and Riacho Pilagá, Estación de Animales Silvestres Guaycolec, Formosa, Argentina.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · Argentina · Paraguay?

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Pardinas, U.F.J., Teta, P., Salazar-Bravo, J., Myers, P., Gallari, C.A. 2016. A new species of arboreal rat, genus Oecomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Chaco. Journal of Mammalogy 97(4): 1177-1196.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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