Hocicudo

Hocicudos
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Cricetidae
Subfamily:Sigmodontinae
Tribe:Akodontini
Genus:Oxymycterus
Waterhouse, 1837
Type species
Mus nasutus
Waterhouse, 1837
Species

Oxymycterus is the genus of hocicudos. They are rat-like animals endemic to South America.

Species listing:

As of 2015 it includes 17 species:[1]

Citations

References

  • David Macdonald (2001). The New Encyclopedia of Mammals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198508239.
  • Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  • Hershkovitz, Philip (1994). "The Description of a New Species of South American Hocicudo, or Long-Nose Mouth, Genus Oxymycterus (Sigmodontinae, Muroidea), with a Critical Review of Generic Content". Fieldiana: Zoology. New Series. 79: 1–43. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3351.
  • Hoffmann, Federico G.; Lessa, Enrique P.; Smith, Margaret F. (2002). "Systematics of Oxymycterus with Description of a New Species from Uruguay". Journal of Mammalogy. 83 (2): 408–420. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0408:SOOWDO>2.0.CO;2.
  • de Oliveira, João; Gonçalves, Pablo R. (2015). "Gensu Oxymycterus Waterhose, 1837". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D'Elía, Guillermo. Rodents. Mammals of South America. 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 247–268. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001.
  • Jayat, J. Pablo; D'Elía, Guillermo; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; Miotti, M. Daniela; Ortiz, Pablo E. (2008). "A new species of the genus Oxymycterus (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the vanishing Yungas of Argentina" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1911 (1): 31–51. ISSN 1175-5334.
  • Waterhouse, G. B. (1837). "Characteristics of New Species of the Genus Mus, from the Collection of Mr. Darwin". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 15–22. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1837.tb06823.x.
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