Reithrodon

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribus: Reithrodontini
Genus: Reithrodon
Species (2): R. auritus – R. typicus

Name

• Reithrodon Waterhouse, 1837: 29

Type species: Reithrodon typicus Waterhouse, 1837, by indication (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985, Art. 68.2.2) antedating cuniculoides, designated type by Coues (1874).

Synonyms

• Ptyssophorus Ameghino, 1889: 111

Type species: Ptyssophorus elegans Ameghino, by monotypy and original designation.

• Tretomys Ameghino, 1889: 119

Type species: Tretomys atavus Ameghino, by monotypy and original designation.

• Proreithrodon Ameghino, 1908: 424

Type species: Proreithrodon chapalmalense Ameghino, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Waterhouse, G.R. 1837. Characters of new species of the genus Mus, from the collection of Mr. Darwin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837(part V): 15–21, 27–32.
• Ameghino, F. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamiferos fósiles de la República Argentina. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la Republica Argentina en Córdoba 6: xxxii + 11027 pp.; atlas, 98 pls.
• Ameghino, F. 1908. Las formaciones sedimentarias de la región litoral de Mar del Plata y Chapalmalán. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 3: 343–428.

Additional references

• Ortells, M.O., Reig, O.A., Brum-Zorrilla, N. & Scaglia, O.A. 1988. Cytogenetics and karyosystematics of phyllotine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). I. Chromosome multiformity and gonosomal-autosomal translocation in Reithrodon. Genetica 77(1): 53–63. DOI: 10.1007/BF00058549

Links

• Reithrodon 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.