Phyllotis stenops

Osgood, 1914

Narrow-nasal Leaf-eared 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 : Phyllotis

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1914-04. Mammals of an expedition across northern Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(12):143-185.

Original name as described

Phyllotis andium stenops

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:19840

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Rio Utcubamba, 15 miles [= 24 km] above Chachapoyas, [Amazonas,] Peru."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

split from P. andium; the name tambarum likely represents this species, which would make it the oldest name available over stenops; the name is retained as stenops here pending further taxonomic work

Taxonomy notes citation

Rengifo, E.M., Pacheco, V. 2015. Taxonomic revision of the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Phyllotis andium Thomas 1912 (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4018(3):349-380.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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