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Proechimys poliopus Osgood 1914
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Proechimys poliopus Osgood 1914
Proechimys poliopus Osgood 1914, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 135.
Type Locality: Venezuela, Táchira State, San Juan de Colón (797 m) on N slope of Sierra de Merida. Listed in Honacki et al. (1982:590) as Venezuela, Zulia Prov., Río Aurare, El Panorama, for unknown reason.
Vernacular Names: Gray-footed Spiny-rat.
Distribution: NW Venezuela, between Lake Maracaibo and the Sierra de Perija and adjacent Colombia.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Placed in trinitatus group (Patton, 1987). Formerly included in guyannensis; see Reig et al. (1980). Karyotype has 2n=42 and FN=72-76 (Aguilera and Corti, 1994; Reig and Useche, 1976).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae, pp. 1575-1592 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1587, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Osgood
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Echimyidae
- Genus
- Proechimys
- Species
- poliopus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Proechimys poliopus Osgood, 1914 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- 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.
- Patton, J. L. 1987. Species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 39: 305 - 345.
- Reig, O. A., M. Aguilera, M. A. Barros, and M. Useche. 1980. Chromosomal speciation in a Rassenkreis of Venezuelan spiny rats (genus Proechimys; Rodentia: Echimyidae). Genetica, 52 / 53: 291 - 312.
- Aguilera, M., and M. Corti. 1994. Craniometric differentiation and chromosomal speciation of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 59: 366 - 377.
- Reig, O. A., and M. Useche. 1976. Diversidad cariotipica y sistematica en poblaciones Venezolanas de Proechimys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), con datos adicionales sobre poblaciones de Peru y Colombia. Acta Cientifica Venezolana, 27: 132 - 140