HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oxymycterus
SPECIES Oxymycterus nasutus
Author: | Waterhouse, 1837. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 16. | Common Name: | Long-nosed Hocicudo | Type Locality: | Uruguay, Maldonado Dept., Maldonado. | Distribution: | Uruguay and adjacent SE Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul to São Paulo). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Comparisons with O. iheringi provided by Massoia and Fornes (1969). They (and Vitullo et al., 1986) further noted the morphological distinction of O. nasutus from O. rufus, under which it had been ranked as a subspecies (Cabrera, 1961); pronounced divergence from the latter sustained by genetic (cytochrome b) and morphometric analyses (Hoffmann et al., 2002). |
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