Hylaeamys laticeps
| Hylaeamys laticeps | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Hylaeamys |
| Species: | H. laticeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Hylaeamys laticeps (Lund, 1840) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Mus laticeps Lund, 1840 | |
Hylaeamys laticeps, also known as the Atlantic Forest oryzomys[1] or the large-headed rice rat,[2] is a species of rodent in the genus Hylaeamys of family Cricetidae.
The rodent is endemic to the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil.
The taxonomic history of Hylaeamys laticeps has been complex, and the name laticeps has been used for various members of the genera Cerradomys, Euryoryzomys, Transandinomys and Hylaeamys at different times. Until 2006, it was classified in the genus Oryzomys as Oryzomys laticeps. The species Oryzomys seuanezi is now a junior synonym of H. laticeps.
References
Literature cited
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Percequillo, A. & Weksler, M. (2008). Hylaeamys laticeps. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A. R.; Voss, R. S. (2006-10-19). "Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)". American Museum Novitates (New York: American Museum of Natural History) 3537: 1–29. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082. hdl:2246/5815.
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