Oligoryzomys longicaudatus

(E. T. Bennett, 1832)

Long-tailed 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

Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1832:2

Original name as described

Mus longicaudatus

Other common names

Long-tailed Colilargo

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1855.12.24.152

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Chiliæ." Restricted by W. H. Osgood in 1943 to Valparaíso, Chile.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Chile · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

includes magellanicus and the recently described yatesi

Taxonomy notes citation

Guzmán, J. A., Ortiz, J. C., & Cañón, C. (2015). Variación morfológica de Oligoryzomys longicaudatus magellanicus (rodentia: sigmodontinae) al oeste de los campos de hielo patagónico sur en Chile. Mastozoología neotropical, 22(2), 375-384. · Hurtado, N. and D'Elía, G. 2019. An assessment of species limits of the South American mouse genus Oligoryzomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae) using unilocus delimitation methods. Zoologica Scripta 48(5):557-570.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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