Oligoryzomys gri

Bonvicino & Weksler, 2024

Tiny Pygmy Rice Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Bonvicino, C.R. and Weksler, M. 2024. Revealing the cryptic diversity of the hosts of Rio Mamoré orthohantavirus complex, _Oligoryzomys microtis_ (Allen 1916) (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of one new species with two subspecies. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy (in press).

Original name as described

Oligoryzomys gri

Type material

MN 87921

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Brazil, Rondônia state, Alto Paraíso, Fazenda do Seu Bento (9°19'15"S, 63°19'15"W, 108 m a.s.l.)."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Bonvicino, C. R., & Weksler, M. (2024). Revealing the cryptic diversity of the hosts of Rio Mamoré orthohantavirus complex, Oligoryzomys microtis (Allen 1916)(Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of one new species with two subspecies. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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