Primordial Tapecua

Primordial Tapecua[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Phyllotini
Genus: Tapecomys
Species: T. primus
Binomial name
Tapecomys primus
Anderson and Yates, 2000

The Primordial Tapecua (Tapecomys primus) is a species of medium sized rodent in the family Cricetidae. The type locality is in southeastern Bolivia. It is the only known species of the genus Tapecomys.[1] Two specimens were found in 1991 in a forested region at an elevation of 1500 m near the village of Tapecua in the Tarija Department of Bolivia.[3] A few additional specimens have been found since, from the type locality[3] and from a location in Jujuy Province, northern Argentina.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1178. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000930. 
  2. ^ a b Dunnum, J., Bernal, N. & Patterson, B. (2008). "Tapecomys primus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136772. Retrieved 09 Feb. 2011. 
  3. ^ a b Anderson, Sydney; Yates, Terry L. (2000). "A new genus and species of Phyllotine rodent from Bolivia". Journal of Mammalogy 81 (1): 18–36. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<0018:ANGASO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1545-1542. http://www.msb.unm.edu/mammals/publications/Anderson2000.pdf. Retrieved 2008-06-20.