HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oxymycterus
SPECIES Oxymycterus amazonicus
Author: | Hershkovitz, 1994. | Citation: | Fieldiana Zool., N.S., 79: 23. | Common Name: | Amazonian Hocicudo | Type Locality: | Brazil, Pará State, right bank lower Rio Tapajós, Fordlândia; 03º40′S, 55º30′W. | Distribution: | Lower Amazon Basin, south of the Rio Amazonas between the Rios Tocantins and Madeira, C Brazil, as least as far south as NW Mato Grosso (per additional localities reported by Musser et al., 1998:239). | Comments: | Considered a small size-class species, principally compared with O. nasutus; sister species to O. delator according to phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome b data (Hoffmann et al., 2002). |
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