Mindomys kutuku

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea
Template:Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Mindomys kutuku Brito, Koch, Tinoco & Pardiñas, 2022: 40

Holotype: MECN 5809 (field number JBM 1849), adult ♂, skull, partial postcranial skeleton, and skin, collected by Jorge Brito, Jenny Curay and Rubí García on 11 September 2017.
Type locality: “Cordillera de Kutukú (-2.78444°S, -78.140000°W, [coordinates taken by GPS at the trapsite], elevation 1,925 m), Parroquia Patuca, Cantón Méndez, Provincia Morona Santiago, República del Ecuador”.

Brito, J., Koch, C., Tinoco, N. & Pardiñas, U.F.J. 2022. A new species of Mindomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae) with remarks on external traits as indicators of arboreality in sigmodontine rodents. Evolutionary Systematics 6(1): 35–55. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.6.76879 Reference page.

English: Kutukú Rat
español: Rata de Kutukú