Mus vulpinus Brants, 1827

Garbino, Guilherme S. T. & Nogueira, Marcelo R., 2017, On the mammals collected by Friedrich Sellow in Brazil and Uruguay (1814 – 1831), with special reference to the types and their provenance, Zootaxa 4221 (2), pp. 172-190 : 180

Mus vulpinus Brants, 1827 (ZMB_MAM 1681)

The material consists of a well-preserved skin ( Fig. 4 c), a fragmented cranium and mandible, with condylar, angular, and coronoid processes missing. Lichtenstein (1830) stated that Sellow collected the type specimen ( ZMB _MAM 1681) on the banks of Rio Uruguay, not specifying the country. The label and the Generalkatalog read “ Uruguay ” as the collecting locality. Hershkovitz (1955) and Cerqueira (1975) affirm that it is not possible to restrict the type locality to any place other than the banks of Rio Uruguay , Uruguay, and western Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil . Nevertheless, taking into account the marshy habitat in which the species occurs, Cerqueira (1975) proposed restricting the type locality to Itaqui, Brazil, near the Uruguayan border, a decision subsequently followed by Gonçalves et al. (2015).

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FIGURE 4. Type specimens of small rodents collected by Friedrich Sellow in Brazil: a) Mus auritus Lichtenstein; b) Mus nigrita Lichtenstein; c) Mus vulpinus Brants, and d) Mus leptosoma Brants. Scale bar = 10 mm.