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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Thomasomys
SPECIES Thomasomys niveipes
| Author: | Thomas, 1896. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 305. | | Common Name: | White-footed Thomasomys | | Type Locality: | Colombia, Cundinamarca Dept., La Hoya del Barro (spelling corrected per Gómez-Laverde et al., 1997). | | Distribution: | Depts. Boyacá and Cundinamarca, above 2900 m, C Colombia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Included as a subspecies of T. laniger by Cabrera (1961) but returned to species status by Musser and Carleton (1993) based on their own specimen comparisons. Sympatry with and chromosomal (2n = 24, FN = 42), mensural, and ecological discrimination from T. laniger (2n = 40, FN = 40) documented by Gómez-Laverde et al. (1997), who provided additional information on the location and habitat of the type locality. |
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