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
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/10.1206/0003-0090.466.1.1Original 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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