Phyllotis limatus Thomas 1912

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 : 1162

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scientific name

Phyllotis limatus Thomas 1912
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Phyllotis limatus Thomas 1912 View in CoL

Phyllotis limatus Thomas 1912 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10: 407.

Type Locality: Perú, Lima Dept., Chosica, 3000 ft (914 m).

Vernacular Names: Lima Pericote.

Distribution: Western coast and contiguous Pacific slopes of the Andes, sea level- 4000 m, from WC Perú to N Chile (see Steppan, 1998:Fig. 5).

Discussion: Described as a subspecies of P. darwini by Thomas (1912) and therewith ranked by others (Cabrera, 1961; Hershkovitz, 1962; Pearson, 1958). Steppan (1998) defended the specific status of limatus , including populations confused under P. xanthopygus rupestris , based on congruent morphological and molecular data; he further noted appreciable differentiation between northern and southern populations of P. limatus but declined to recognize these formally as subspecies. Sister species of P. xanthopygus according to maximum parsimony analyses of cytochrome b sequences (Steppan, 1998), perhaps arising by peripheral isolation from a western lineage of P. xanthopygus rupestris ( Kuch et al., 2002) . Late Quaternary occurrence of the species in the S Atacama Desert, slightly to the south of its current range, documented by mitochondrial DNA recovered from ancient rodent midden ( Kuch et al., 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Phyllotis

Loc

Phyllotis limatus Thomas 1912

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Phyllotis limatus

Thomas 1912: 407
1912
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