Sigmodon (Sigmodon) peruanus J. A. Allen 1897

Wilison, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1176

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Sigmodon (Sigmodon) peruanus J. A. Allen 1897 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 9: 118.

Type Locality: Perú, La Libertad Dept., Trujillo, 200 ft (61 m).

Vernacular Names: Peruvian Cotton Rat.

Synonyms: Sigmodon (Sigmodon) chonensis J. A. Allen 1913 ; Sigmodon (Sigmodon) lonnbergi Thomas 1921 ; Sigmodon (Sigmodon) puna J. A. Allen 1903 ; Sigmodon (Sigmodon) simonsi J. A. Allen 1901 .

Distribution: Pacific coastal plain and contiguous Andean foothills of W Ecuador and NW Perú.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sigmodon , S. fulviventer species group. Lumped under S. hispidus by Cabrera (1961) following the footnoted opinion of Hershkovitz (1955 a); reinstated as a species by Voss (1992) and morphologically contrasted to that species and other South American taxa. The provocative molecular results presented by Peppers et al. (2002) phyletically link this South American endemic with Middle American S. fulviventer and S. leucotis .

References

Allen, J. A. 1913. Revision of the Melanomys group of American Muridae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 32: 535 - 555.

Hershkovitz, P. 1955 a. South American marsh rats, genus Holochilus, with a summary of sigmodont rodents. Fieldiana: Zoology, 37: 639 - 687.

Peppers, L. L., D. S. Carroll, and R. D. Bradley. 2002. Molecular systematics of the genus Sigmodon (Rodentia: Muridae): Evidence from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Mammalogy, 83: 396 - 407.

Voss, R. S. 1992. A revision of the South American species of Sigmodon (Mammalia: Muridae) with notes on their natural history and biogeography. American Museum Novitates, 3050: 1 - 56.