Rhagomys Thomas 1917

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 : 1166

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Rhagomys Thomas 1917 View in CoL

Rhagomys Thomas 1917 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 20: 192.

Type Species: Hesperomys rufescens Thomas 1886

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Rhagomys longilingua Luna and Patterson 2003

Species Rhagomys rufescens (Thomas 1886)

Discussion: 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 oryzomyine-thomasomyine endemic genera are found.

References

Luna, L., and B. D. Patterson. 2003. A remarkable new mouse (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from southeastern Peru with comments on the affinities of Rhagomys rufescens (Thomas, 1886). Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 101: 1 - 24.

McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.

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.

Tate, G. H. H. 1932 f. The taxonomic history of the South and Central American oryzomine genera of rodents (excluding Oryzomys): Nesoryzomys, Zygodontomys, Chilomys, Delomys, Phaenomys, Rhagomys, Rhipidomys, Nyctomys, Oecomys, Thomasomys, Inomys, Aepeomys, Neacomys, and Scolomys. American Museum Novitates, 581: 1 - 28.

Thomas, O. 1917 c. On the arrangement of the South American rats allied to Oryzomys and Rhipidomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 20: 192 - 198.