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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Rhipidomys
SPECIES Rhipidomys venezuelae
| Author: | Thomas, 1896. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 303. | | Common Name: | Venezuelan Rhipidomys | | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Mérida State, Mérida, 1630 m. | | Distribution: | Mountains of N and W Venezuela, including Trinidad and Tobago, and E Colombia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996). This form may represent the E Andean complement of R. latimanus (see that account). The provisional association of R. nitela tobagi Goodwin, heretofore placed as a synonym of R. nitela (e.g., Musser and Carleton, 1993; Tribe, 1996), follows the observations of Voss et al. (2001). |
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