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
2024-04-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5414895
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10.5281/zenodo.5414895
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Neacomys musseri
Patton et al., 2000
Figure 21B, 21E
VOUCHER MATERIAL (
N
= 6): Nuevo
San Juan
(AMNH 272676, 272687, 272712, 272719; MUSM 13308, 13310).
UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: None.
IDENTIFICATION: As discussed in the preceding account, the only consistently diagnostic morphological difference between
Neacomys musseri
and sympatric
N. aletheia
concerns the carotid arterial circulation. Apparently, these species are known to occur sympatrically only at Nuevo
San Juan
.
Neacomys musseri
was originally described from
14 specimens
collected at two geographically distant localities (>
500 km
apart): the
type