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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Rheomys
SPECIES Rheomys raptor
Author: | Goldman, 1912. | Citation: | Smithson. Misc. Coll., 60: 7. | Common Name: | Goldman’s Ichthyomyine | Type Locality: | Panamá, Darién Prov., Cerro Pirre, near headwaters of Río Limón, 4500 ft (1372 m). | Distribution: | Isolated segments in highlands of C Costa Rica and W Panamá (hartmanni), and in E Panamá (raptor). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Treated as a subspecies of Rheomys trichotis (Cabrera, 1961), but species status affirmed by Voss (1988). Enders (1939) described hartmanni as a species; recognized as such (e.g., Hall, 1981) until Voss (1988) allocated the form to a subspecies of raptor. Status of the morphologically distinctive hartmanni, isolated in the Talamancan highlands, deserves reconsideration using other information sources. |
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