Nectomys rattus ( Pelzeln, 1883 )

Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429), pp. 1-69 : 49

publication ID

0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5479236

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D3878E-FFB1-FFB9-EBA4-10D8FCCF50B2

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Nectomys rattus ( Pelzeln, 1883 )
status

 

Nectomys rattus ( Pelzeln, 1883) View in CoL

VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 1 adult female ( MUSM 39281 ) ; see table 23 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: We consulted descriptions and measurements of Nectomys rattus provided by Hershkovitz (1944, as Nectomys squamipes melanius ), Voss et al. (2001, as Nectomys melanius ), Bonvicino and Weksler (2015), and Chiquito et al. (2017). No subspecies are currently recognized in Nectomys rattus ( Bonvicino and Weksler, 2015; Chiquito et al., 2017). Nectomys rattus is distinguished from other species in the genus by the following combination of characteristics: dorsal fur grayish brown; venter fur pale gray; hind feet lacking hypothenar pads; forefeet with distinct rudiment of thumb with nail; tail scaly but moderately haired; lacrimals contacting the maxillary bone; interparietal much wider than long; and dorsolateral exposition of the exoccipital reduced ( Bonvicino and Weksler, 2015; Chiquito et al., 2017). Our specimen conforms to previous descriptions of the species, and its measurements fall within the range of size variation previously documented.

REMARKS: Our single specimen was captured in a cultivated area. Lareschi and Velazco (2013) reported the mite Gigantolaelaps goyanensis from our specimen.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Nectomys

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF