Reithrodon auritus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribus: Reithrodontini
Genus: Reithrodon
Species: Reithrodon auritus

Name

Reithrodon auritus (G. Fischer, 1814)

Holotype: not assigned; based on Azara’s (1801) "rat quatrième or rat oreillard."

Type locality: “les Pampas, au Sud de Buenos-Ayres” (Azara 1801: 91), equated to “south bank of the Río de la Plata,” Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, by Hershkovitz (1959: 349).

Combinations

Mus auritus G. Fischer, 1814: 71 [original combination]
[Reithrodon] auritus: Thomas, 1920: 474 [name combination]

Synonyms

M[us] physodes Illiger, 1815 (nomen nudum)
Mus physodes Olfers, 1818
Mus auritus Desmarest, 1819
Reithrodon cuniculoides Waterhouse, 1837
Mus pachycephalus Philippi, 1900
Reithrodon hatcheri Allen, 1903
Reithrodon cuniculoides obscurus Allen, 1903
Reithrodon cuniculoides flammarum Thomas, 1912
Reithrodon cuniculoides pampanus Thomas, 1916
Reithrodon caurinus Thomas, 1920
Reithrodon auritus marinus Thomas, 1920
Reithrodon cuniculoides evae Thomas, 1927

References

Fischer, G. 1814. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquensis edita. Editio Tertia. Volumen Tertium. Quadrupedum reliquorum, cetorum et montrymatum descriptionem continens. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky: Mosquae [=Moscow]. xxiv + 732 pp. BHL Reference page.
Azara, F. De. 1801. Essais su l’histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay. Traduits sur le manuscrit inédit de l’auteur, Pra. M. L. E. Moreau-Saint-Méry. Charles Pougens, París, 1: 91.
Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkunger zu Illiger’s Ueberblick der Säugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rüchsichtlich der Südamericanischen Arten (Species). (Abhandlung X of Wilhelm Ludwig Eschwege’s Journal von Brasilien . . . , volume 15, heft 2, pp. 192–237, of the "Neue Bibliothek des wichtigsten Reisenbeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde . . . ," edited by F. T. Bertuch, Weimar.)
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: 30.
Philippi, R.A. 1900. Figuras i descripciones de los murideos de Chile. Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, Zoologia 14a: 42, plate 17, figure 6-6b.
Allen, J. A. 1903. Descriptions of new rodents from southern Patagonia, with a note on the genus Euneomys Coues, and an addendum to Article IV, on Siberian mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19: 190–191.
Thomas, O. 1912. New bats and rodents from S. America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 10: 411.
Thomas, O. 1920. New species of Reithrodon, Abrocoma, and Scapteromys from Argentina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5: 473–474.
Thomas, O. 1927. On a further collection of mammals made by Sr. E. Budin in Neuquen, Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 19: 652.
Pardiñas, U.F.J. & Galliari, C.A. 2001. Reithrodon auritus. Mammalian Species 664: 1–8. [Full article (PDF)

Links

Reithrodon auritus 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: Reithrodon auritus (Least Concern)
Reithrodon auritus (G. Fischer, 1814) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

English: Hairy-soled Conyrat
español: Rata conejo