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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Echimyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Echimyinae
--> GENUS Makalata
SPECIES Makalata didelphoides
| Author: | Desmarest, 1817. | | Citation: | Nouv. Dict. Nat., Nouv. ed., 10: 58. | | Common Name: | Red-nosed Armored Tree-rat | | Type Locality: | Unknown, probably Brazil. | | Distribution: | Andes of N Ecuador and Colombia, Venezuela, Guyanas, Amazon Basin of Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago; perhaps Martinique (record probably erroneous, see Hall, 1981:1180). | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient as Mesomys didelphoides, Lower Risk (lc) as Makalata armatus. | | Comments: | Emmons (1993a) concluded that the holotype for Echimys didelphoides was a young Makalata armata and therefore E. didelphoides Desmarest 1817 antedates Nelomys armatus I. Geoffroy (1838). Karyotype has 2n=66 and FN=110 (Lima et al., 1998). Sequence data suggest more than one species present in didelphoides (da Silva and Patton, 1993; Patton et al., 2000). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
armatus (I. Geoffroy, 1838)
castaneus (Allen and Chapman, 1893)
guianae (Thomas, 1888)
hispidus (Lichtenstein, 1830)
longirostris (Anthony, 1921)
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