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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Rhipidomys
SPECIES Rhipidomys wetzeli
Author: | Gardner, 1989. | Citation: | In Eisenberg, Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy: 417. | Common Name: | Wetzel’s Rhipidomys | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Cerro de la Neblina, Camp VII, 1800 m; 00°50'40"N, 65°58'10"W. | Distribution: | Highlands in S Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) and N Brazil (as per Fonseca et al., 1996). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | R. fulviventer section sensu Tribe (1996). A small species, contrasted to R. fulviventer by Gardner (1989) and morphometrically well differentiated from the fulviventer venustus complex (Tribe, 1996). |
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