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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Phyllotis
SPECIES Phyllotis amicus
| Author: | Thomas, 1900. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5: 355. | | Common Name: | Peruvian Pericote | | Type Locality: | Perú, Cajamarca Dept., Tolón, 100 m. | | Distribution: | Coast and lower Pacific slopes of W Perú, Depts. Piura (see Lavrentchenko and Dmitriev, 1994) to Ayacucho. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Sister species of P. limatus according to phylogenetic analysis of abbreviated cytochrome b sequences (Spotorno et al., 2001). The basis for the reported presence of P. amicus in Argentina (Heinonen Fortabat and Chebez, 1997; Massoia and Donadío, 1990) has been reidentified as an example of Oligoryzomys chacoensis (Galliari et al., 1996). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
maritimus Thomas, 1900
montanus Thomas, 1900
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