Rhipidomys leucodactylus Tschudi 1845

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 : 1169

Rhipidomys leucodactylus Tschudi 1845

Rhipidomys leucodactylus Tschudi 1845 , Untersuchungen uber die Fauna peruana (Therologie): 183.

Type Locality: Perú, Region Andrés Avelino Cáceres (former Junín Dept.), Montaña de Vítoc area (as restricted by Tribe, 1996:201).

Vernacular Names: White-footed Rhipidomys.

Synonyms: Rhipidomys aratayae Guillotin and Petter 1984 ; Rhipidomys bovallii Thomas 1911 ; Rhipidomys equatoris Thomas 1915 ; Rhipidomys goodfellowi Thomas 1900 ; Rhipidomys lucullus Thomas 1911 ; Rhipidomys rex Thomas 1927 ; Rhipidomys sclateri (Thomas 1887) .

Distribution: Guianas, S Venezuela, N and C Brazil, Ecuador, Perú, and WC Bolivia (see Anderson, 1993); extralimital in W Ecuador and NW Perú.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996). The homogeneity of junior epithets and populations gathered under R. leucodactylus , especially those west of the Andes, should be tested with other data and new collections. Thomas (1887 b), e.g., named sclateri as a species from British Guiana and viewed it as the eastern counterpart of Peruvian R. leucodactylus ; Guillotin and Petter (1984), however, described aratayae as a subspecies of R. leucodactylus from French Guiana; Voss et al. (2001) provisionally accepted both as examples of R. leucodactylus . Morphology and karyotype of W Brazil samples characterized by Patton et al. (2000), who compared the species with R. gardneri .