Calassomys apicalis

Pardiñas, G. M. Lessa, Teta, Salazar-Bravo, & Câmara, 2014

Calaça's White-tailed Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Pardiñas, U.F.J., Lessa, G.M., Teta, P., Salazar-Bravo, J. and Câmara, E.M.V.C. 2014-04-15. A new genus of sigmodontine rodent from eastern Brazil and the origin of the tribe Phyllotini. Journal of Mammalogy 95(2):201-215.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-208

Original name as described

Calassomys apicalis

Type material

MCNPUC 2785

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Brazil, Minas Gerais, Sempre Vivas National Park, 3.25 km by road NW Macacos, Pedreira do Gaio (19°57'50"S, 43°47'18"W, 1251 m asl)."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described genus and species

Taxonomy notes citation

Pardiñas, U.F.J., Lessa, G., Teta, P., Salazar-Bravo, J. & Câmara, E.M.V.C. 2014. A new genus of sigmodontine rodent from eastern Brazil and the origin of the tribe Phyllotini. Journal of Mammalogy 95(2): 201–215

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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