A review on the cytogenetics of the tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of new karyotypes
Author
Moreira, Camila Do Nascimento
Author
Ventura, Karen
Author
Percequillo, Alexandre Reis
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Yonenaga-Yassuda, Yatiyo
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-06
4876
1
1
111
journal article
7983
10.11646/zootaxa.4876.1.1
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1175-5326
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Nephelomys
Weksler, Percequillo & Voss 2006
The genus
Nephelomys
comprises 13 recognized species,
N. albigularis
(Tomes 1860)
,
N. auriventer
(Thomas 1899)
,
N. caracolus
(Thomas 1914)
,
N. childi
(Thomas 1895)
,
N. devius
(Bangs 1902)
,
N. keaysi
(Allen 1900)
,
N. levipes
(Thomas 1902)
,
N. maculiventer
(Allen 1899)
,
N. meridensis
(Thomas 1894)
,
N. moerex
(Thomas 1914)
,
N. nimbosus
(Anthony 1926)
,
N. pectoralis
(Allen 1912)
, and
N. pirrensis
(Goldman 1913)
. These species were restricted to the Andes, from
Bolivia
to
Colombia
, the coastal ranges of
Venezuela
, and extend northwards in the cordilleras of
Panama
and
Costa Rica
in Central America (
Márquez
et al
. 2000
;
Weksler
et al
. 2006
b;
Prado & Percequillo 2013
;
Percequillo 2015e
).