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Reithrodon typicus Waterhouse 1837

Description

Reithrodon typicus Waterhouse 1837

Reithrodon typicus Waterhouse 1837, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 30.

Type Locality: Uruguay, Maldonado Dept., Maldonado.

Vernacular Names: Naked-soled Conyrat.

Synonyms: Reithrodon currentium Thomas 1920.

Distribution: EC Argentina (Entre Ríos and Corrientes), Uruguay, and extreme S Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul).

Discussion: Although early maintained as distinct from R. auritus (Ellerman, 1941; Gyldenstolpe, 1932), Osgood (1943) placed typicus and all conyrats in a single species, and the genus thereafter was typically viewed as monotypic, whether as R. physodes Olfers, 1818 (Cabrera, 1961; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Hershkovitz, 1955 a, 1959; Honacki et al., 1982) or R. auritus Fischer, 1814 (Musser and Carleton, 1993; Reig, 1978). Specific status reaffirmed by Ortells et al. (1988), who noted substantial differences in diploid and fundamental numbers between R. auritus proper (2n = 34) and typicus (2n = 28), as earlier reported by Freitas et al. (1983 b, as auritus).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1165, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Waterhouse
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Reithrodon
Species
typicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Reithrodon typicus Waterhouse, 1837 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

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  • Gyldenstolpe, N. 1932. A manual of Neotropical sigmodont rodents. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Tredje Serien, 11: 1 - 164.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1943. The mammals of Chile. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 30: 1 - 268.
  • Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkungen zu Illiger's Ueberblick der Saugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rucksichtich der Sudamericanischen Arten (Species). Abhandlung X in W. L. von Eschwege, Journal von Brasilien, odor vermischte Nachrichten aus Brasilien, auf wissenschaftlichen Reisen gesammelt. Heft 2 in F. Bertuch (ed.), Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde, Band 15: 192 - 237. Weimar.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.
  • Hershkovitz, P. 1955 a. South American marsh rats, genus Holochilus, with a summary of sigmodont rodents. Fieldiana: Zoology, 37: 639 - 687.
  • 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.
  • Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.
  • Reig, O. A. 1978. Roedores cricetidos del Plioceno superior de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Publicaciones del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales de Mar del Plata, 2: 164 - 190.
  • Ortells, M. O., O. A. Reig, N. Brum-Zorrilla, and O. A. Scaglia. 1988. Cytogenetics and karyosystematics of phyllotine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). I. Chromosome multiformity and gonosomal-autosomal translocation in Reithrodon. Genetica, 77: 53 - 63.
  • Freitas, T. R. O., M. Mattevi, and L. F. B. Oliveira. 1983 b. G- and C-banded karyotype of Reithrodon auritus from Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 318 - 321.