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VOUCHER MATERIAL (
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= 9): Nuevo San Juan (AMNH 268252, 268269, 273080; MUSM 13306, 15328, 15329),
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(MUSM 22346, UF 30599), Santa Cecilia (FMNH 87242).
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IDENTIFICATION: Like other species of
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(see below), the specimens that we refer to
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FIG. 51. Dorsal, ventral, and lateral cranial views of
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“species 5” (AMNH 268270). All views about ×1.6.
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are small echimyines (HBL &lt;
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) with conspicuously spiny, uniformly grizzled-brownish dorsal pelage and a sparsely haired tail with an obvious terminal tuft. The forefeet are mesaxonic (digits III and IV are equal in length), and manual digits IIV have strong, sharp claws. The upper cheektooth rows are approximately parallel (not strongly convergent anteriorly), and the upper cheekteeth (unlike those of other echimyines in our region) have closed labial flexi that are isolated as enamel islands on the occlusal surface, being essentially similar in this respect to the cheekteeth of
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.
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As currently recognized,
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is a widespread Amazonian species that exhibits substantial geographic variation in size and mtDNA sequence characteristics (
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; Patton and Emmons, 2015b). Phylogenetic analyses of cytochrome
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sequence data obtained from two of our vouchers (MUSM 13306, 22346) recovered both as members of “Clade A,” a strongly supported haplogroup that included other sequences from eastern
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and western
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(
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).
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By contrast, a cytochrome
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that differ from those in Clade A by about 7% in model-corrected (K2P) comparisons. Among other evidence of phenotypic divergence between these lineages, the maxillary toothrow length of specimens in Clade A is 7.3 ±
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, whereas the maxillary toothrow of specimens in Clade F is 6.2 ±
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(
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: table 2). Measurements of our specimens (table 37) broadly overlap those of others assigned to Clade A (e.g., the “upriver clade” of
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In Orlando et al.s (2003: fig. 2) phylogeny MUSM 13306 was mislabelled as having come from
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department, although its correct provenance was given in one of their appendices (
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). The sequence that they identified as MV970002 (Michael Valquis field number) corresponds to the specimen now cataloged as MUSM 22346).
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<paragraph id="8B83CA19FFDEFFB1FD5D5890FCAEFECC" blockId="125.[684,1213,225,1738]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">table 58), which they likewise resemble in qualitative traits.</paragraph>
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The oldest available junior synonym of
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). On a 1998 visit to London, R.S.V. measured Günthers damaged
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; ZB,
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) are all within the range of morphometric variation in Clade A as documented in the references cited above. Although
<bibRefCitation id="EFADB7E8FFDEFFB1FCE85A81FC6CFCDC" author="Thomas, O." box="[793,1007,755,779]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126" pagination="606 - 608" refId="ref92417" refString="Thomas, O. 1911. Three new mammals from the lower Amazons. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 8) 7: 606 - 608." type="journal article" year="1911">Thomas (1911: 607)</bibRefCitation>
thought that Günthers
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<emphasis id="B948160BFFDEFFB1FD055B66FCECFCFB" box="[756,879,788,812]" italics="true" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">ferrugineus</emphasis>
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“cannot be separated” from
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Wagner, 1845 (another junior synonym of
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as currently recognized), the
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locality of
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(Borba, at
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,
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, on the right bank of the lower Rio Madeira;
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) is over
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distant from the known range of Clade A, and it is on the opposite side of a known biogeographic barrier.
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Thus,
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would seem to be the appropriate name for Clade A (including our specimens from the Yavari-Ucayali interfluve) if additional taxa were to be recognized as valid within the
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complex. As others before us (e.g.,
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) have concluded, however, it seems prudent to await additional analyses based on nuclear loci, karyotypes, and more densely sampled phenotypic data before disrupting the taxonomic status quo.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B83CA19FFDEFFB1FD3D5DFAFC1AFA16" blockId="125.[684,1213,225,1738]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">ETHNOBIOLOGY: The Matses have no special name for this species.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B83CA19FFDEFFB1FD3D5DB8FC6AF9D4" blockId="125.[684,1213,225,1738]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">MATSES NATURAL HISTORY: No interviews were focused on this species.</paragraph>
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REMARKS:
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of
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are accompanied by habitat information from our region. Of these, one dropped from a tree that was being felled for a new swidden in primary upland forest, four were shot at night from trees in primary floodplain (seasonally inundated) forest, and one was trapped on a liana in open hillcrest forest. Recorded heights from which specimens were shot or trapped ranged from
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above the ground. Sparse as they are, these data are consistent with observations previously summarized by
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and
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that
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is a eurytopic arboreal species.
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