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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Echimyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Echimyinae
--> GENUS Callistomys
SPECIES Callistomys pictus
| Author: | Pictet, 1841. | | Citation: | Notice Anim. Nouv. Mus. Geneve: 29. | | Common Name: | Painted Tree-rat | | Type Locality: | Brazil, Bahia. | | Distribution: | Known only from the vicinity of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient as Echimys pictus. | | Comments: | Previously included in the genus Isothrix (Cabrera, 1961; Ellerman, 1940; Patton and Emmons, 1985; Waterhouse, 1848), Nelomys (Goldman, 1916; Pictet, 1843; Thomas, 1916e, f), or Echimys (Moojen, 1952; Tate, 1935), but placed in a new genus, Callistomys, by Emmons and Vucetich (1998). |
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