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

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 : 752

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad, Princes Town .

DISTRIBUTION: Savannas from SE Costa Rica through Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas, to Brazil north of the Amazon River; including Trinidad and Tobago and smaller continental-shelf islands adjacent Panama and Venezuela.

SYNONYMS: cherriei , fraterculus , frustrator, griseus , microtinus , reigi , sanctaemartae , seorsus , soldadoensis, stellae , thomasi , tobagi, ventriosus.

COMMENTS: Geographic variation evaluated by Voss (1991a), who retained three subspecies: brevicauda , cherriei , and microtinus . Formerly included punctulatus , which Voss (1991 b) reidentified as a member of Bolomys .