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Nectomys squamipes

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Nectomys squamipes (Brants, 1827). Het Geslacht der Muizen, p. 138.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Säo Paulo, Säo Sebastiao (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1944:32).

DISTRIBUTION: Basin of the Rios Magdalena and Cauca, NC Colombia; east of the Andes broadly distributed from Guianas, Venezuela, and E Colombia southwards to NE Argentina, Uruguay, and SE Brazil; sea level to 2000 m.

SYNONYMS: amazonicus, apicalis, aquaticus, brasiliensis, cephalotes, fulvinus, garleppii, grandis, magdalenae, mattensis, melanius, montanus, napensis, olivaceus, pollens, rattus, robustus, vallensis.

COMMENTS: Hershkovitz (1944) arrayed most nominal taxa of water rats as subspecies of N. squamipes , a view maintained by Cabrera (1961). Gardner and Patton (1976) intimated the mixed composition of squamipes; Reig (in Honacki et al., 1982; 1986) has offered enumerations of valid species and probable synonymies. Fullscale generic revision warranted. See Ernest (1986, Mammalian Species, 265).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 709, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Nectomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Brants
Species
squamipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nectomys squamipes (Brants, 1827) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1944. Systematic review of the Neotropical water rats of the genus Nectomys (Cricetinae). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 58: 1 - 101.
  • Gardner, A. L., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Karyotypic variation in oryzomyine rodents (Cricetinae) with comments on chromosomal evolution in the Neotropical cricetine complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 49: 1 - 48.
  • Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.
  • Ernest, K. A. 1986. Nectomys squamipes. Mammalian Species, 265: 1 - 5.