Calomys sorellus (Thomas, 1900)

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 : 698

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DOI

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scientific name

Calomys sorellus (Thomas, 1900)
status

 

Calomys sorellus (Thomas, 1900) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 6:297.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Libertad Dept., 8 mi S Huamachuco, 3500 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Peruvian Andes, above 2000 m, from Dept. Libertad to Puno.

SYNONYMS: frida , miurus .

COMMENTS: Classified as a subspecies of C. lepidus (Cabrera, 1961) ; discrimination from and sympatry with C. lepidus documented by Hershkovitz (1962), who relegated frida and miurus to synonymy under C. sorellus (also see Pearson and Patton, 1976).

Hershkovitz, P. 1962. Evolution of Neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. Fieldiana: Zoology, 46: 1 - 524.

Pearson, O. P., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Relationships among South American phyllotine rodents based on chromosome analysis. Journal of Mammalogy, 57: 339 - 350.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Calomys