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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Sigmodon
--> SUBGENUS Sigmodon
SPECIES Sigmodon (Sigmodon) hirsutus
Author: | Burmeister, 1854. | Citation: | Abhandlungen Naturforschender Gesellschaft Halle, Sitzungberichte, 2: 16. | Common Name: | Southern Cotton Rat | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Zulia State, Maracaibo. | Distribution: | Nicaragua to C Panamá, Central America; in South America to N Colombia and N Venezuela (see Linares, 1998:Fig. 171); northern limits uncertain. | Comments: | Subgenus Sigmodon, S. hispidus species group. Central and South American taxa included as subspecies of S. hispidus (Cabrera, 1961; Hall and Kelson, 1959), observing the polytypic species template handed down from Bailey (1902). Genetic separation, inferred from cytochrome b sequence data, of southern populations revealed by Peppers and Bradley (2000), who reinstated hirsutus as species; sister species to S. alleni based on those data (and Peppers et al., 2002). Among the species-group synonyms, the South American taxa bogotenis and sanctaemartae, which have yet to be surveyed genetically, warrant additional attention; Gyldenstolpe (1932) and Ellerman (1941) listed both as species. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
austerulus Bangs, 1902 bogotensis J. A. Allen, 1897 borucae J. A. Allen, 1897 chiriquensis J. A. Allen, 1904 griseus J. A. Allen, 1908 sanctaemartae Bangs, 1898
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