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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Scolomys
SPECIES Scolomys ucayalensis
| Author: | Pacheco, 1991. | | Citation: | Publ. Mus. Hist. Nat., Ser. A Zool., Univ. Nac. Mayor de San Marcos, 37: 1. | | Common Name: | Long-nosed Scolomys | | Type Locality: | Perú, Loreto Dept., 2.8 km E Jenaro Herrera, right bank of Río Ucayali, 135 m; 79°39'W, 04°52'S. | | Distribution: | S Colombia, NE Peru, and westernmost Brazil (Acre and Amazonas) (Gómez-Laverde et al., 2004:Fig. 1). | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Based on qualitative traits, morphometric analyses, and cytochrome b sequences, Gómez-Laverde et al. (2004) considered the recently described juruaense as insufficiently differentiated to warrant specific separation. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
juruaense Patton and da Silva, 1995
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