HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Thomasomys
SPECIES Thomasomys laniger
Author: | Thomas, 1895. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16: 59. | Common Name: | Soft-furred Thomasomys | Type Locality: | Colombia, Cundinamarca Dept., Bogotá Region, 8750 ft (2667 m). | Distribution: | Andes of C Colombia and adjacent W Venezuela (see Linares, 1998:Fig. 149). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Chromosomal, mensural, and ecological discrimination from T. niveipes in Colombia presented by Gómez-Laverde et al. (1997); karyotypic formula for Venezuelan populations reported by Aguilera et al. (2000). |
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