Rhipidomys mastacalis (Lund, 1840)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 745

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scientific name	Rhipidomys mastacalis (Lund, 1840)
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Rhipidomys mastacalis (Lund, 1840) . K. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Naturv. Math. Afhandl., p. 24.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Rio das Velhas, Lagoa Santa .

DISTRIBUTION: C and E Brazil, and perhaps Amazonian regions of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

SYNONYMS: cearanus, emiliae , macrurus , maculipes, yuruanus.

COMMENTS: Degree of differentiation from the Andean forms latimanus and venezuelae unresolved; occurs in close proximity to a smaller species here listed as R. nitela . Distributional limits unclear. Zanchin et al. (1992a) considered cearanus as a species separate from R. mastacalis .