Published December 31, 1993
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Oxymycterus nasutus
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Description
Oxymycterus nasutus (Waterhouse, 1837). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837:16.
TYPE LOCALITY: Uruguay, Maldonado.
DISTRIBUTION: Uruguay and adjacent SE Brazil.
COMMENTS: Comparisons with O. iheringi provided by Massoia and Fornes (1969); they (and Vitullo et al., 1986) further noted the distinction of O. nasutus from O. rufus, under which it had been ranked as a subspecies (Cabrera, 1961). Range limits unknown.
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 727, 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
- Oxymycterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Species
- nasutus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oxymycterus nasutus (Waterhouse, 1837) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Massoia, E., and A. Fornes. 1969. Characteres comunes y distintivos de Oxymycterus nasutus (Waterhouse) y O. iheringi Thomas (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Physis (Buenos Aires), 28: 315 - 321.
- Vitullo, A. D., M. S. Merani, O. A. Reig, A. E. Kajon, O. Scaglia, M. B. Espinosa, and A. Perez-Zapata. 1986. Cytogenetics of South American akodont rodents (Cricetidae): New karyotypes and chromosomal banding patterns of Argentinian and Uruguayan forms. Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 69 - 80.