HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Echimyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dactylomyinae
--> GENUS Dactylomys
SPECIES Dactylomys peruanus
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1900. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 220. | Common Name: | Montane Bamboo Rat | Type Locality: | Peru, Juliaca; corrected by J. A. Allen (1901) to Inca Mines, "about 200 miles [322 km] northeast of Jaliaca" 1,830 m, 13o30’S, 70oW. | Distribution: | Cloud forest of SE Peru. | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. Unknown. | Comments: | Emmon and Feer (1997) indicated that this taxon occurs at 1,000 to 3,000 m in SE Peru and Bolivia, but see Anderson (1997), who recorded no specimens from Bolivia. |
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