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Kunsia tomentosus
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Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830). Darst. Säugeth., 7(15):33.
TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, southeastern area along the Rio Uruguay (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1966c:120).
DISTRIBUTION: NE Bolivia (Beni Prov.) and WC Brazil (Mato Grosso); Pleistocene cave samples in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
SYNONYMS: gnambiquarae, principalis.
COMMENTS: Rare in collections; range inadequately known. See Massoia and Fornes (1965) and Hershkovitz (1966c) for justification of synonymy.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Kunsia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lichtenstein
- Species
- tomentosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.
- Massoia, E., and A. Fornes. 1965. Notas sobre el genero Scapteromys (Rodentia-Cricetidae). II. Fundamentos de la identidad especifica de S. principalis (Lund) y S. gnambiquarae (M. Ribeiro). Neotropica, 11: 1 - 7.