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
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1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Oxymycterus dasytrichus
(Schinz 1821)
[Oxymycterus] dasytrichus
(Schinz 1821)
,
in: G. Cuvier, Das Thierreich, Vol. 1: 288
.
Type Locality:
Brazil
,
Bahia State
, Rio Mucurí (as restricted by Cabrera, 1961:468).
Vernacular Names:
Atlantic Forest Hocicudo
.
Synonyms:
Oxymycterus dasytrichos
(
Wied-Neuwied 1826
)
;
Oxymycterus dosytrichos
(Schinz 1821)
;
Oxymycterus rostellatus
(Wagner 1842)
.
Distribution:
Atlantic Forest region of SE
Brazil
(
Bahia
to
São Paulo
; see
Hoffmann et al., 2002
, Pereira et al., 2001).
Discussion:
Original spelling as
Mus dosytrichos
, emended to
dasytrichus
by
Tate (
1932
g
:17)
. Arranged as a full synonym of
O. rufus
by
Ellerman (1941)
or recognized subspecies by Cabrera (1961), and so associated by
Musser and Carleton (1993)
.
Fonseca et al. (1996)
and Pereira et al. (2001) listed
dasytrichus
as species, and confirmatory data (mitochrondrial DNA) demonstrating its clear separation from
O. rufus
presented by
Hoffmann et al. (2002)
. Karyotype (2n = 54, FN = 64) reported by Pereira et al. (2001). The taxon
rostellatus
is listed as a species by
Fonseca et al. (1996)
.