Oligoryzomys brendae

Massoia, 1998

San Javier's Pygmy 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 : Oligoryzomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Massoia, E. 1998. Roedores vinculados con virosis humanas en la Republica Argentina. Pp. 243–246 in . (eds.). 2nd Congreso Argentino de Zoonosis y 1st Congreso Argentino y Latinoamericano de Enfermedades Emergentes. None, Buenos Aires.

Original name as described

Oligoryzomys brendae

Other common names

Brenda's Colilargo · San Javier Colilargo · San Javier's Colilargo

Type material

CFA-MA-00482

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Cerro San Javier, 1000 m, Tucumán, Argentina.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Argentina · Bolivia?

Taxonomy notes

includes the recently described lanosus

Taxonomy notes citation

Agnolin, F. L., Derguy, M. R., Godoy, I. N., & Chimento, N. R. (2019). Mamíferos argentinos: descripción de nuevas especies delas colecciones de Elio Massoia y Julio R. Contreras (Rodentia,Chiroptera, Carnivora). Historia Natural, 9, 107-181. · Teta, P., D'Elía, G., Jayat, J. P., Gonçalves, P. R., Simões, G., do Prado, R., ... & Schiaffini, M. I. (2020). On the distinction and availability of the new taxa proposed by Agnolin et al. 2019. Mastozoología Neotropical, en prensa, Mendoza, 1-17.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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