Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893

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 : 1168

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scientific name	Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893
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Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 5: 214.

Type Locality: Trinidad, 7 mi (11 km) SE Princes Town and 12 mi (19 km) N of the southern coast.

Vernacular Names: Coues' Rhipidomys.

Synonyms: Rhipidomys cumananus Thomas 1900 .

Distribution: Moist lowland forest that follows an arc from Trinidad, through N and WC Venezuela, to C Colombia (Meta).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996). Cabrera (1961) identified couesi as a subspecies of R. sclateri . As emphasized by its original describer Thomas (1887 b), sclateri closely resembles Peruvian R. leucodactylus , and, in both Venezuela (see Handley, 1976) and Perú, R. couesi and R. leucodactylus are morphologically distinct.

References

Handley, C. O., Jr. 1976. Mammals of the Smithsonian Venezuelan Project. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 20: 1 - 91.

Thomas, O. 1887 b. On the small mammals collected in Demerara by Mr. W. L. Sclater. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1887: 150 - 153.

Tribe, C. J. 1996. The Neotropical rodent genus Rhipidomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) - a taxonomic revision. Ph. D. Dissertation, University College, London, 316 pp.