Oxymycterus willkaurco

Zeballos, Medina, Rico-Cernohorska, & Salazar-Bravo, 2021

Cusco Hocicudo

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Zeballos, H., Medina, C.E., Rico-Cernohorska, A. and Salazar-Bravo, J. 2021-07. Una especie nueva de Oxymycterus (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Akodontini) del sureste de Perú. Mastozoología Neotropical 28(1):e0545.

Original name as described

Oxymycterus willkaurco

Other common names

Cusco's Hocicudo

Type material

MUSA 4192

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Perú: Departamento del Cusco, Provincia deUrubamba, Distrito de Urubamba, Chupani, 13°05’03.94"S, 72°07’ 17.30” W, 3850 m."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Zeballos, H., Medina, C. E., Rico-Cernohorska, A., & Salazar-Bravo, J. (2021). Una Especie Nueva de Oxymycterus (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Akodontini) del Sureste de Perú. In U. F. J. Pardiñas & C. Galliari (eds.). Seccion Especial El Último Naturalista Tipólogo: Contribuciones en Honor a Elio Massoia (1936-2001). Mastozoologia Neotropical, XX, 1-22.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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