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New records of Rhagomys rufescens (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in the Atlantic forest of Brazil

  • 1. Laboratório de Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Naturais, FURB, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil Laboratório de Citogenética e Evolução, Departamento de Genética, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Departamento de Biologia Animal, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Laboratório de Ecologia Animal, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, ESALQ/USP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil Corresponding author. E-mail: steiner.souza@gmail.com

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Steiner-Souza, Francisco, Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro, Percequillo, Alexandre Reis, Testoni, André Filipe, Xix, Sérgio Luiz Althoff (2008): New records of Rhagomys rufescens (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Zootaxa 1824 (1): 28-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1824.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1824.1.3

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