Sciurus pachecoi

Voss, Fleck, & Giarla, 2024

Pacheco's Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Sciurinae
Tribe : Sciurini
Genus : Sciurus
Subgenus : Hadrosciurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Voss, R.S., Fleck, D.W. and Giarla, T.C. 2024-04-18. Mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 5. Rodents. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 466:1-179.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.466.1.1

Original name as described

Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pachecoi

Type material

AMNH M-73924

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Orosa (on the right bank of the Amazon at or near the mouth of the Río Orosa; see appendix 1), Loreto department, Peru."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

recently described; under a new proposed taxonomic arrangement for Sciurini, S. pachecoi(along with S. ignitus, S. igniventris, S. spadiceus, and S. pyrrhinus) would be moved to the genus Hadrosciurus; this arrangement is tentatively not followed here pending further investigation

Taxonomy notes citation

Patton, J. L., Pardiñas, U. F., & D'Elía, G. (2015). Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents (Vol. 2). University of Chicago Press. · de Abreu-Jr, E. F., Pavan, S. E., Tsuchiya, M. T., Wilson, D. E., Percequillo, A. R., & Maldonado, J. E. (2020). Museomics of tree squirrels: A dense taxon sampling of mitogenomes reveals hidden diversity, phenotypic convergence, and the need of a taxonomic overhaul. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20, 1-77. · de Abreu-Jr, E. F., Pavan, S. E., Tsuchiya, M. T., Wilson, D. E., Percequillo, A. R., & Maldonado, J. E. (2020). Spatiotemporal diversification of tree squirrels: is the South American invasion and speciation really that recent and fast?. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 230. · Voss, R. S., Fleck, D. W., & Giarla, T. C. (2024). Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 5. Rodents. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2024(446), 1-179.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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