Scapteromys Waterhouse 1837

Wilson, 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 : 1172

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scientific name	Scapteromys Waterhouse 1837
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Scapteromys Waterhouse 1837 View in CoL

Scapteromys Waterhouse 1837 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837: 20.

Type Species: Mus tumidus Waterhouse 1837

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Scapteromys aquaticus Thomas 1920

Species Scapteromys tumidus Waterhouse 1837

Discussion: Akodontini. Hershkovitz (1966 c) viewed Scapteromys as the cognate of Kunsia, a close kinship supported by phylogenetic investigations of gene-sequence data, but not including Bibimys as third member of a scapteromyine tribe sensu Massoia (1979 b, 1980 a ) (see D’Elía, 2003; D’Elía et al. 2003; Smith and Patton, 1999). Hershkovitz (1966 c) removed tomentosus and fronto to Kunsia , and Massoia (1980 a) transferred chacoensis and labiosus to Bibimys . Karyology summarized by Gardner and Patton (1976) and Brum-Zorilla et al. (1986). Fossil occurrences (late Pliocene through Holocene) documented by Reig (1994) and Pardiñas (1996, 1999). Generic revision required to consolidate the morphological basis for specific discrimination and to vouch geographic occurrences. Also see accounts of Bibimys and Kunsia .

References

Brum-Zorilla, N., G. Oliver, T. G. De Fronza, and R. Wainberg. 1986. Karyological studies of South American rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae). I. Comparative analysis in Scapteromys rodents. Caryologia, 39: 131.

Gardner, A. L., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Karyotypic variation in oryzomyine rodents (Cricetinae) with comments on chromosomal evolution in the Neotropical cricetine complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 49: 1 - 48.

Hendey, Q. B. 1980 a. Agriotherium (Mammalia: Ursidae) from Langebaanweg, South Africa, and relationships of the genus. Annals of the South African Museum, 81 (1): 1 - 109.

Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.

Massoia, E. 1979 b. Descripcion de un genero y especie nuevos: Bibymys torresi (Mammalia-Rodentia-Cricetidae-Sigmodontinae-Scapteromyini). Physis, C, 38: 1 - 7.

Massoia, E. 1980 a. El estado sistematico de cuatro especies de cricetidos sudamericanos y comentarios sobre otras especies congenericas (Mammalia-Rodentia). Ameghiniana, 17: 280 - 287.

Reig, O. A. 1994. New species of akodontine and scapteromyine rodents (Cricetidae) and new records of Bolomys (Akodontini) from the upper Pliocene and Middle Pleistocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana, 31: 99 - 113.

Smith, M. F., and J. L. Patton. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and the radiation of sigmodontine rodents in South America: Evidence from cytochrome b. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 6: 89 - 128.