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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Neotominae
--> GENUS Scotinomys
SPECIES Scotinomys xerampelinus
| Author: | Bangs, 1902. | | Citation: | Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 39: 41. | | Common Name: | Long-tailed Singing Mouse | | Type Locality: | Panamá, Chiriquí Prov., Volcán de Chiriquí, 10,300 ft (3139 m). | | Distribution: | High elevations in Cordilleras Central and Talamancae of Costa Rica to Volcán Chiriquí region in W Panamá. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Hooper (1972) synonymized harrisi and longipilosus, forms described as species, under S. xerampelinus and deemed the intraspecific variation as insufficient to retain subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
harrisi Goodwin, 1945
longipilosus Goodwin, 1945
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