A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental
Author
VOSS, ROBERT S.
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American Museum Novitates
2003
2003-12-09
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282003%29421%3C0001%3AANSOTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2
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Conepatus
cf.
semistriatus
(Boddaert)
SPECIMENS COLLECTED: None.
OTHER MATERIAL
:
I examined a single specimen (
AMNH 66719
) that was collected by
H.E. Anthony
at
4145 m
on
Cerro Antisana
in 1923.
Other
material that I have not seen (
Diego Tirira
, personal commun.) includes
one specimen
from
4200 m
on
Cerro Antisana
(
QCAZ 0638
), and another from
2800 m
near
Cuyuja
(
E of Papallacta
on the road to
Baeza
;
QCAZ 0726
)
.
TAXONOMY: Ecuadorean hognosed skunks are currently referred to
Conepatus semistriatus
(e.g., by
Cabrera, 1958
;
Kipp, 1965
;
Wozencraft, 1993
), but no substantive analysis of character data is apparently available to justify this convention.
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Van Gelder’s (1968)
detailed analysis of variation in cranial and pelage traits within a very large Uruguayan sample of
Conepatus
could serve as the basis for a muchneeded revision of this genus in South America.
REMARKS: Although none were seen in the course of our fieldwork, skunks are said to be common in local páramo habitats (
Black, 1982
).