Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860
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Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860
Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860, Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1860: 152.
Type Locality: Ecuador, Napo Prov., Tena, 512 m (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1944:53).
Vernacular Names: Western Amazonian Nectomys.
Synonyms: Nectomys fulvinus Thomas 1897; Nectomys garleppii Thomas 1899; Nectomys montanus Hershkovitz 1944; Nectomys napensis Hershkovitz 1944; Nectomys saturatus Thomas 1897; Nectomys vallensis Hershkovitz 1944.
Distribution: Westernmost Brazil (Acre and Amazonas), and contiguous lowlands and Andean foothills of C and E Ecuador, E Perú, and WC Bolivia (see Anderson, 1997:Fig. 685; Patton et al., 2000:Fig. 78); distributional limits uncertain.
Discussion: Argued by Patton et al. (2000) as the oldest name for those water rat populations in western Amazonia with a 2n = 38-42 karyotype, including garleppii, which Reig (in Honacki et al., 1982) and Barros et al. (1992) recognized as a species. More than a single species is likely represented among the listed synonyms, whether they belong to one of the other species recognized here or to some other species yet to be determined.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Nectomys
- Species
- apicalis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nectomys apicalis Peters, 1860 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
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.
- Anderson, S. 1997. Mammals of Bolivia, taxonomy and distribution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 231: 1 - 652.
- Patton, J. L., M. N. F. da Silva, and J. R. Malcolm. 2000. Mammals of the Rio Jurua and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 244: 1 - 306.
- 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.
- Barros, M. A., O. A. Reig, and A. Perez-Zapata. 1992. Cytogenetics and karyosystematics of South American oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). IV. Karyotypes of Venezuelan, Trinidadian, and Argentinian water rats of the genus Nectomys. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 59: 34 - 38.