Neacomys serranensis

Colmenares-Pinzón, 2021

Serrano Bristly Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Colmenares-Pinzón, J.E. 2021-02-02. Calling for a reassessment of rodent diversity in Colombia: description of a new species of Neacomys (Cricetidae: Oryzomyini) from the Magdalena Valley, with a new phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus and comments on its diversification. Zootaxa 4920(4):451-494.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4920.4.1

Original name as described

Neacomys serranensis

Other common names

Serrano Spiny Mouse

Type material

UIS:M:1608

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Colombia, Department of Santander, Municipality of El Carmen de Chucurí, vereda La Bodega, sector Manchurrias, western slope of the Serranía de los Yariguíes, Finca Buenos Aires, in the basin of the La San Guillerma stream (6°41'5.2''N, 73°26'10.4''W, 1,595 m a.s.l.)"

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Colmenares-Pinzón, J. E. (2021). Calling for a reassessment of rodent diversity in Colombia: description of a new species of Neacomys (Cricetidae: Oryzomyini) from the Magdalena Valley, with a new phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus and comments on its diversification. Zootaxa, 4920(4), 451-494.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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