Blastocerus dichotomus

Garbino, Guilherme S. T. & Nogueira, Marcelo R., 2017, On the mammals collected by Friedrich Sellow in Brazil and Uruguay (1814 – 1831), with special reference to the types and their provenance, Zootaxa 4221 (2), pp. 172-190 : 183

Blastocerus dichotomus (ZMB_MAM 2052)

The species is represented by an adult male (MTR = 85.11 mm; MDL = 91.41 mm; BB = 76.09 mm); writing on the skull reads “ San Paulo Sello” ( Fig. 8 a). This locality is probably incorrect, since the species occurred only in marshy habitats in western São Paulo, along the banks of the Rio Paraná, a region not visited by Sellow ( Piovezan et al. 2010). The species also occurred in Brazil and Uruguay, along the banks of the Rio Uruguay ( Piovezan et al. 2010), and it is more probable that this specimen came from these countries, near that river.

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FIGURE 8. Two Cervidae skulls collected by Sellow: a) Blastoceros dichotomus (ZMB _ MAM 2052); b) Ozotoceros bezoarticus (ZMB _ MAM 2057). See text for locality data.