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Wiedomys Hershkovitz 1959
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Description
Wiedomys Hershkovitz, 1959. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 72:5.
TYPE SPECIES: Mus pyrrhorhinos Wied-Neuwied, 1821.
COMMENTS: Wiedomyine, a tribe formally diagnosed by Reig (1980) to contain the problematic form pyrrhorhinos, which has been variously classified as a species of Oryzomys or Thomasomys (see Tate, 1932/; Osgood, 1933d; and Hershkovitz, 1959b), and a new fossil genus, Cholomys, recovered from E Argentina.
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 751, 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
- Scientific name authorship
- Hershkovitz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Wiedomys
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Wiedomys Hershkovitz, 1959 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Osgood, W. H. 1933 d. The generic position of Mus pyrrhorhinus Wied. Journal of Mammalogy, 14: 370 - 371.
- Hershkovitz, P. 1959 b. Two new genera of South American rodents. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 72: 5 - 10.