Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
955
1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Oryzomys angouya
(G. Fischer 1814)
[Oryzomys] angouya
(G. Fischer 1814)
,
Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata: 71
.
Type Locality:
Paraguay
,
Misiones
Dept., east of the Río
Paraguay
, 2.7 km (by road) N San Antonio (as fixed by
neotype
designation by Musser et al., 1998).
Vernacular Names:
Angouya Oryzomys
.
Synonyms:
Oryzomys angouya
(Desmarest 1819)
;
Oryzomys anguya
(
Rengger 1830
)
;
Oryzomys buccinatus
(
Olfers 1818
)
;
Oryzomys leucogaster
(Wagner 1845)
;
Oryzomys paraganus
Thomas 1924
;
Oryzomys ratticeps
(Hensel 1872)
;
Oryzomys rex
(
Winge 1887
)
;
Oryzomys tropicius
Thomas 1924
.
Distribution:
SE
Brazil
, NE
Argentina
, and E
Paraguay
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc) as
O. buccinatus
and
O. ratticeps
.
Discussion:
Oryzomys angouya
is the oldest available name based on Azara’s (1801) "Rat troisieme, ou
Rat Angouya
," a species conventionally known as
O. buccinatus
and-or
O. ratticeps
(
Avila-Pires, 1960
a
; Cabrera, 1961;
Ellerman, 1941
;
Gyldenstolpe, 1932
;
Hershkovitz, 1959
a
;
Moojen, 1952
;
Musser and Carleton, 1993
;
Thomas, 1924
b
). Morphology characterized,
neotype
designated, and synonyms attributed by Musser et al. (1998). Slight karyotypic variation, reflecting supernumerary chromosomes, reported for specimens from
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
(2n = 80-82, FN = 88-90; Pereira et al., 2001).