Chinchillidae and Dolichotinae rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha) from the late Pleistocene of Southern Brazil [PDF]
New records of rodents from the late Pleistocene Chuí Creek, Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil, are here described. A partial dentary with fragmented cheek teeth is identified as Chinchillidae, Lagostomus Brookes cf. L. maximus (Desmarest).
Kerber, Leonardo +4 more
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Abstract Caviomorph rodents are endemic to South America and are one of the most adaptively diverse radiations of rodents today. Although their origin and diversification have been intensively studied, questions still remain about many of the details of where, when and how the group radiated.
Ornella C. Bertrand +5 more
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Sobre a ocorrência de Callistomys pictus (Pictet) (Rodentia, Echimyidae) [PDF]
A study on lhe geographical distribution of Callistomys pictus (Pictet, 1843) based on specimens conserved in museums, bibliography informations, and field observations is presented. The species is endemic to the Atlantic forest of the State of Bahia, Brazil.
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New record of the rare Atlantic Forest rodent Phyllomys lundi (Mammalia: Rodentia)
The arboreal echimyid rodent of the genus Phyllomys Lund, 1839 is found in the eastern Brazilian Atlantic forest, from the state of Ceará to the state of Rio Grande do Sul, reaching the São Francisco and Paraná river basins in the west.
Michel B. Faria +2 more
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Mammalia, Rodentia, Echimyidae, Phyllomys blainvilii (Jourdan, 1837): range extension and new geographic distribution map [PDF]
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Bruno Campos, Alexandre Percequillo
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Macrofauna en el bosque húmedo tropical Análisis preliminar de diversidad basado en los registros del sistema de trampas cámara en la Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini. [PDF]
This paper analyses data provided by the sampling of a lowland Amazon forest terrestrial mammal and bird community in eastern Ecuador. Sampling was conducted with camera traps and aimed to identify the structure of the community and document saltlick ...
Banda Cruz, Gonzalo
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The phylogenetic position of the enigmatic Atlantic forest-endemic spiny mouse Abrawayaomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) [PDF]
Background The phylogenetic position of the sigmodontine genus Abrawayaomys, historically assigned to the tribe Thomasomyini or considered a sigmodontine incertae sedis, was assessed on the basis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences obtained from ...
D Elía, Guillermo +6 more
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The native savannas of eastern Colombia cover about six percent of the Neotropical savannas. Within these 17 million hectares, the current composition of nonflying mammals evidenced colonization from Andean, Guyanese, and Amazonian speciation centers and endemism processes.
Federico Mosquera-Guerra +5 more
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Aproximación a nivel de suprataxón de las prioridades de conservación de roedores en el siglo XXI [PDF]
Although rodents are not considered among the most threatened mammals, there is ample historical evidence concerning the vulnerability to extinction of several rodent phylogenetic lineages.
Amori, G., Gippoliti, S.
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Status, conservation and distribution of Paraguayan hystricomorpha 2. Echimyidae (Rodentia)
Six species of spiny rat (Echimyidae) have been documented to occur in Paraguay belonging to two subfamilies: Echimyinae (4 species in 4 genera) and Euryzgomatomyinae (2 species in 2 genera). No species have been the subject of specific field studies in Paraguay. Only one species is widespread through the country: Myocastor coypus.
Paul Smith
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