Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Rhagomys
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Rhagomys
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Rhagomys
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Rhagomys
Rhagomys: Geographic Information
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Rhagomys: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Generic affinities uncertain: originally allied with Oryzomys-Oecomys (Thomas, 1917c), or included among oryzomyine genera (Tate, 1932f), or listed as Sigmodontinae incertae sedis (McKenna and Bell, 1997; Reig, 1980, 1984; Smith and Patton, 1999). Taxonomic history reviewed and genus critically recharacterized by Luna and Patterson (2003), who considered the biogeographic implications of a new Rhagomys in SE Peru, far away from the Atlantic Forest region where its congenor and other oryzomy...