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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Thomasomys
SPECIES Thomasomys onkiro
| Author: | Luna and Pacheco, 2002. | | Citation: | J. Mammal., 83: 835. | | Common Name: | Ashaninka Thomasomys | | Type Locality: | Perú, Cuzco Dept., La Convención Prov., Vilcabamba Cordillera, between the Ene and Urubamba Rivers, 325 km NW Cuzco, 3350 m; 11º39′36″S, 73º40′02″W. | | Distribution: | Known only from elfin forest at the type locality, S Peru. | | Comments: | A medium-sized species differentially compared with T. caudivarius and T. silvestris and morphologically most similar to the latter; presumed to be a relict restricted to the Cordillera Vilcabamba (Luna and Pacheco, 2002). |
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