Brazilian shrew mouse

Brazilian shrew mouse
Temporal range: Pleistocene – Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Cricetidae
Subfamily:Sigmodontinae
Tribe:Akodontini
Genus:Blarinomys
Thomas, 1896
Species: B. breviceps
Binomial name
Blarinomys breviceps
(Winge, 1888)

The Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps),[2] also known as the blarinine akodont,[3] is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil.[1] It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pardinas et al., 2008
  2. ↑ Duff and Lawson, 2004
  3. 1 2 Musser and Carleton, 2005

Literature cited

  • Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 312 pp. ISBN 0-7136-6021-X
  • Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
  • Pardinas, U., Patterson, B., D'Elia, G. and Teta, P. 2008. Blarinomys breviceps. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on February 4, 2010.


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