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Rhipidomys wetzeli Gardner 1989

Description

Rhipidomys wetzeli Gardner 1989

Rhipidomys wetzeli Gardner 1989, in: Eisenberg, Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy: 417.

Type Locality: Venezuela, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Cerro de la Neblina, Camp VII, 1800 m; 00°50'40"N, 65°58'10"W.

Vernacular Names: Wetzel's Rhipidomys.

Distribution: Highlands in S Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) and N Brazil (as per Fonseca et al., 1996).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: R. fulviventer section sensu Tribe (1996). A small species, contrasted to R. fulviventer by Gardner (1989) and morphometrically well differentiated from the fulviventer venustus complex (Tribe, 1996).

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 1171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gardner
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Rhipidomys
Species
wetzeli
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhipidomys wetzeli Gardner, 1989 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Fonseca, G. A. B., G. Herrmann, Y. L. R. Leite, R. A. Mittermeier, A. B. Rylands, and J. L. Patton. 1996. Lista anotada dos mamiferos do Brasil. Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology, 4: 38 pp.
  • Tribe, C. J. 1996. The Neotropical rodent genus Rhipidomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) - a taxonomic revision. Ph. D. Dissertation, University College, London, 316 pp.