Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 5. Rodents
Author
Voss, Robert S.
Author
Fleck, David W.
Author
Jansa, Sharon A.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2019
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5414895
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10.5281/zenodo.5414895
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Cuniculus paca
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Figure 39
VOUCHER MATERIAL (
N
= 3): Nuevo
San Juan
(MUSM 11238), Quebrada Esperanza (FMNH 88899), Santa Cecilia (FMNH 86922). Additionally,
Pavlinov (1994)
reported four ZMMU specimens from Jenaro Herrera that we have not seen.
UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: Actiamë (
Amanzo, 2006
), Divisor (
Jorge and Velazco, 2006
), Itia Tëbu (
Amanzo, 2006
), Jenaro Herrera (
Ríos et al., 1974
;
Tovar, 2011
), Río Yavarí (
Salovaara et al., 2003
), Río Yavarí-Mirím (
Salovaara et al., 2003
), Tapiche (
Jorge and Velazco, 2006
),
San Pedro
(
Valqui, 1999
,
2001
).
IDENTIFICATION: Like the capybara (see above),
Cuniculus paca
(formerly
Agouti
paca
; Patton, 2015b) is a widespread, monotypic, and morphologically unmistakable species. Most cranial measurements of our single adult voucher (table 31) are within the range of morphometric variation among topotypical (northeastern Ama-