Hylaeamys laticeps

Hylaeamys laticeps

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: Hylaeamys
Species: Hylaeamys laticeps

Name

• Hylaeamys laticeps (Lund, 1840)

Lectotype: UZM 266, adult ♀, skin, skull and skeleton. [designated by Musser et al. (1998: 261)]

Type locality: “Rio das Velhas’s Floddal” (Lund, 1841: 292, 294), Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Combinations

• Mus laticeps Lund, 1839: 233 [nomen nudum]
• Mus laticeps Lund, 1840 preprint of Lund, 1841 [original combination]
• Mus laticeps Lund, 1841: 279 [original combination]
• Oryzomys laticeps: Thomas, 1894: 354 [name combination]
• [Hylaeamys] laticeps: Weksler, Percequillo & Voss, 2006: 14 [name combination]

Synonyms

• Calomys saltator Winge, 1888: 48 [renaming of Mus laticeps Lund]

• Oryzomys seuanezi Weksler, Geise & Cerqueira, 1999: 454 [synonymised by Percequillo (2015: 339)]

Holotype: MNRJ 42678, adult ♂, skin, skull, partial skeleton and preserved tissues.

Type locality: “Fazenda União, Casimiro de Abreu municipality, Rio de Janeiro state (22°25′S, 42°02′W; 50 m).”

References

Primary references

• Lund, P.W. 1839. Coup-d’oeil sur le espèces éteintes de mammifères du Brésil; extrait de quelques mémoires présentés à l’Academie royale des Sciences de Copenhague. Annales des sciences naturelles, serie 2, 11(Zoologie): 214–234. Reference page. 
• Lund, P.W. 1840. Tillaeg til de to sidste Afhandlinger over Brasiliens Dyreverden för sidste Jorgomvaeltning. Lagoa Santa, den 4de April 1839. Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og mathematiske Afhandlinger ser. 4 8: 273–296 + 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Lund, P.W. 1840. Tillaeg til de to sidste Afhandlinger over Brasiliens Dyreverden för sidste Jorgomvaeltning. Lagoa Santa, den 4de April 1839. Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og mathematiske Afhandlinger ser. 4 8: 273–296 + 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Winge, H. 1888. Jordfunde og nulevende Gnavere (Rodentia) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien: med udsigt over gnavernes indbyrdes slaegtskab. E Museo Lundii Band 1(3). F. Dreyer: Kjöbenhavn. 178 pp. + 8 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Thomas, O. 1894. Descriptions of some new Neotropical Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 14: 346–366.
• Weksler, M., Geise, L. & Cerqueira, R. 1999. A new species of Oryzomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from southeast Brazil, with comments on the classifi cation of the O. capito species group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 125: 445–462.
• Weksler, M., Percequillo & Voss, R.S. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537: 1–29. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5815 Reference page. 

Links

• Oryzomys laticeps in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Hylaeamys laticeps  (Near Threatened)

Vernacular names

English: Atlantic Forest Oryzomy, Large-headed Rice Rat