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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Phyllotis
SPECIES Phyllotis magister
| Author: | Thomas, 1912. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10: 406. | | Common Name: | Majestic Pericote | | Type Locality: | Perú, Arequipa Dept., Arequipa, 2300 m. | | Distribution: | Upper Pacific slopes of Andes from C Perú (see Arana-Cardó and Ascorra, 1994) to N Chile. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Hershkovitz (1962) treated magister as a subspecies of P. darwini, a rank inconsistent with records of sympatry (Pearson, 1958) and karyotypic differences (Pearson, 1972; Pearson and Patton, 1976). Pearson (1958) arranged definitus as a subspecies of P. magister but later (1972) supported its specific status. Intestinal area and volume compared with P. xanthopygus and related to dietary differences (Lagos and Bozinovic, 1999). |
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