Title
Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)
Title Variants
Alternative:
Ten new oryzomyine genera
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3537
By
Weksler, Marcelo
Percequillo, Alexandre Reis
Voss, Robert S.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2006
Notes
Title from caption.
"October 19, 2006."
"In order to achieve a monophyletic classification of oryzomyine rodents, 10 new genera are described for species or species groups previously referred to the polyphyletic genus Oryzomys. The following names are proposed: Aegialomys, n.gen. (for the 'xanthaeolus group' of authors); Cerradomys, n.gen. (for the 'subflavus group'); Eremoryzomys, n.gen. (for polius); Euryoryzomys, n.gen. (for the 'nitidus group'); Hylaeamys, n.gen. (for the 'megacephalus group'); Mindomys, n.gen. (for hammondi); Nephelomys, n.gen. (for the 'albigularis group'); Oreoryzomys, n.gen. (for balneator); Sooretamys, n.gen. (for angouya); and Transandinomys, n.gen. (for bolivaris and talamancae). All of the new genera thus constituted are morphologically diagnosable and have distinct ecogeographic distributions. Pending revisionary work that is currently in progress by other researchers, six species belonging to the 'alfaroi group' (herein construed as including alfaroi, chapmani, melanotis, rhabdops, rostratus, and saturatior) are provisionally referred to Handleyomys. As a result of these changes, the genus Oryzomys is restricted to the 'palustris group' of authors, and the tribe Oryzomyini now comprises 28 genera"--P. [1].
Subjects
Classification
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Latin America
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Mammals
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Muridae
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Nomenclature
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Oryzomys
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Phylogeny
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Rodents
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3537, 2006
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
73716375
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