Scolomys Anthony, 1924

Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2019, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 5. Rodents, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (466), pp. 1-180 : 86

Scolomys Anthony, 1924

The genus Scolomys includes two species of small, short-tailed spiny mice, both of which are endemic to western Amazonia ( Gómez-Laverde et al., 2004; Patton, 2015a). Once believed to be allopatric, these species were recently reported to occur sympatrically at several localities in our region by Medina et al. (2015). We have not examined Medina et al.’s specimens (provisionally listed as vouchers, below), but we collected both species at Jenaro Herrera and Nuevo San Juan. Our capture data (summarized below) is consistent with previously reported evidence that these tiny mice are exclusively terrestrial ( Patton et al., 2000; Hice and Velazco, 2012), but their diets are completely unknown.