Rhipidomys nitela Thomas 1901
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Rhipidomys nitela Thomas 1901
Rhipidomys nitela Thomas 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 8: 148.
Type Locality: Guyana, Rupununi Dist., Kanuku Mountains, Kwaimatta, 240 ft (73 m).
Vernacular Names: Guianan Rhipidomys.
Synonyms: Rhipidomys fervidus Thomas 1904; Rhipidomys milleri J. A. Allen 1913; Rhipidomys yuruanus J. A. Allen 1913.
Distribution: Amazonian lowlands in S Venezuela, Guianas, and NC Brazil. The reports of the species in Bolivia (Anderson, 1997) and Colombia (Tribe, 1996) cannot be confirmed, and the species appears to be confined to Amazonia east of the Rios Negro-Madeira as so far documented (see Voss et al., 2001).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996). Previously listed either as a race of R. venezuelae (Gyldenstolpe, 1932) or R. mastacalis (Cabrera, 1961), but distinct from true venezuelae in Venezuela (see Handley, 1976, who used the species name mastacalis) and from the mastacalis complex in EC Brazil (Tribe, 1996). Morphometric and chromosomal variation cautions that populations arranged as nitela represent a composite of two species (Tribe, 1996; Volobouev and Catzeflis, 2000); Andrades-Miranda et al. (2002 a) considered the 2n = 48 and FN = 68 karyotype to represent R. nitela proper.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Rhipidomys
- Species
- nitela
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhipidomys nitela Thomas, 1901 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Allen, J. A. 1913. Revision of the Melanomys group of American Muridae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 32: 535 - 555.
- Anderson, S. 1997. Mammals of Bolivia, taxonomy and distribution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 231: 1 - 652.
- Tribe, C. J. 1996. The Neotropical rodent genus Rhipidomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) - a taxonomic revision. Ph. D. Dissertation, University College, London, 316 pp.
- Gyldenstolpe, N. 1932. A manual of Neotropical sigmodont rodents. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Tredje Serien, 11: 1 - 164.
- Handley, C. O., Jr. 1976. Mammals of the Smithsonian Venezuelan Project. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 20: 1 - 91.
- Volobouev, V. T., and F. M. Catzeflis. 2000. Chromosome banding analysis (G-, R-, and C-bands) of Rhipidomys nitela and a review of the cytogenetics of Rhipidomys. Mammalia, 64: 353 - 360.
- Andrades-Miranda, J., L. F. B. Oliveira, C. A. V. Lima-Rosa, D. A. Sana, A. P. Nunes, and M. S. Mattevi. 2002 a. Genetic studies in representatives of genus Rhipidomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from Brazil. Acta Theriologica, 47: 125 - 135.