Holochilus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 419-420

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scientific name	Holochilus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819)
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Holochilus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819) View in CoL . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Paris, 2nd ed., 29:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Lagoa Santa .

DISTRIBUTION: S. and E. Brazil; Uruguay; N.E. and C. Argentina.

COMMENT: Reviewed by Hershkovitz, 1955, Fieldiana Zool., 37:639- 673, and Massoia, 1971, Rev. Invest. Agropec. INTA, Buenos Aires, ser. 1, Biol. Prod. Anim., 8(1): 13— 40. Gardner and Patton, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. St. Univ., 49:31, suggested that brasiliensis was a composite, as defined by Hershkovitz, 1955, Fieldiana Zool., 37:639- 673, who included chacarius , sciureus , guianae , berbicensis, incarum, venezuelae , amazonicus, and nanus in this species; also see Massoia, 1980, Ameghiniana, 17: 280-287, who considered chacarius and sciureus (which includes the remaining forms above) distinct species, and included leucogaster in brasiliensis . OAR retains nanus in brasiliensis and considers amazonicus and venezuelae distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008016001001.

References

Gardner, A. L., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Karyotypic variation in oryzomyine rodents (Cricetinae) with comments on chromosomal evolution in the Neotropical cricetine complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 49: 1 - 48.