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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Nectomys
SPECIES Nectomys palmipes
| Author: | J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1893. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 209. | | Common Name: | Trinidad Nectomys | | Type Locality: | Trinidad, Victoria County, Princes Town. | | Distribution: | Isl of Trinidad and nearby region of NE Venezuela; limits of distribution unknown. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Arranged by Hershkovitz (1944) as one of many subspecies of N. squamipes. Barros et al. (1992) reinstated palmipes to species based on its inordinately low diploid number (2n = 16-17) as compared to other populations of Nectomys, which range from 2n = 38 to 59 (Barros et al., 1992; Gardner and Patton, 1976). Linares (1998) retained palmipes as a subspecies of N. squamipes; junior status of tatei identified by Voss et al. (2001). |
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