Juscelinomys candango Moojen, 1965

Distribution.

Juscelinomys candango is endemic to the Cerrado, and is only known from its type locality in the Brazilian Distrito Federal (Moojen 1965, Emmons 2015).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Extinct” to Juscelinomys candango (see Leite and Patterson 2008). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category "Critically Endangered (Likely Extinct)" (ICMBIO-MMA 2016).