Phyllotis pehuenche

Jayat, Teta, A. A. Ojeda, Steppan, Osland, P. E. Ortiz, Novillo, Lanzone, & R. A. Ojeda, 2022

Pehuenche 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

Jayat, J.P., Teta, P., Ojeda, A.A., Steppan, S.J., Osland, J.M., Ortiz, P.E., Novillo, A., Lanzone, C. and Ojeda, R.A. 2022-06-06. Establishing the availability of the recently erected binomen _Phyllotis pehuenche_ (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Therya notes 3(2):110-114.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.12933/therya_notes-22-80

Original name as described

Phyllotis pehuenche

Type material

CMI 6791

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Argentina, Provincia de Mendoza, Departamento Malargüe, 10 km al S de Las Leñas, margen del Río Salado, 1,900 m ... (35° 10’ 55" S, 70° 42’ 00" W).

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Argentina

Taxonomy notes

recently described based on populations previously attributed to P. xanthopygus; the species name from the original description is unavailable since the name was described in the supplementary material (downloadable as a word document); the species was made available in 2022

Taxonomy notes citation

Jayat, J. P., Teta, P., Ojeda, A. A., Steppan, S. J., Osland, J. M., Ortiz, P. E., Novillo, A., Lanzone, C., & Ojeda, R. A. (2021). The Phyllotis xanthopygus complex (Rodentia, Cricetidae) in central Andes, systematics and description of a new species. Zoologica Scripta, 00, 1-18. · Jayat, J. P., Teta, P. V., Ojeda, A. A., Steppan, S. J., Osland, J. M., Ortiz, P. E., ... & Ojeda, R. A. (2022). Establishing the availability of the recently erected binomen Phyllotis pehuenche (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Therya Notes, 3, 110-114.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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