Zygodontomys brevicauda (J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1893)

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 : 476

Zygodontomys brevicauda (J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1893) . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:215.

TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad, Princestown .

DISTRIBUTION: S.E. Costa Rica to Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, and adjacent Brazil; Trinidad and Tobago.

COMMENT: Includes cherriei, microtinus, seorsus, and punctulatus; see Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 49:203-204, Hall, 1981:733, and Husson, 1978:415-419. Handley, 1966, in Wenzel and Tipton, eds., Ectoparasites of Panama, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 783, listed microtinus and seorsus as distinct species, without comment. Kiblisky et al., 1970, Acta Cient. Venez., 21(1): 35, Gardner and Patton, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. St. Univ., 49:28, and Pearson and Patton, 1976, J. Mammal., 57:349, listed microtinus as a distinct species. Z. brevicauda is probably a composite according to OAR who retains cherriei and tobagi in brevicauda and considers brunneus (including sanctaemartae), microtinus (including thomasi and stellae), and punctulatus (including griseus and fraterculus ) distinct species based on comparisons of most holotypes and distributions; all of the forms considered above by OAR were included in brevicauda by Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 46:196-205.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008059001001 as Z. brevicauda .

5301410008059002001 as Z. cherriei.

5301410008059004001 as Z. microtinus.

5301410008059005001 as Z. punctulatus.