Hocicudos
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Oxymycterus nasutus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Akodontini
Genus: Oxymycterus
Waterhouse, 1837
Type species
Mus nasutus
Waterhouse, 1837
Species

Oxymycterus is a genus of rat-like rodents commonly known as hocicudos. They are endemic to South America. As of April 2019, the genus contains the following 16 species:[1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 Peçanha, W.T. (April 2019). "A new species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from a transitional area of Cerrado – Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (2): 578–598. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz060.
  2. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 26–27.
  3. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 23–26.
  4. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 250–251.
  5. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 27–26.
  6. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 251–252.
  7. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 252–254.
  8. Hershkovitz 1994, p. 28.
  9. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 254–255.
  10. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 28–29.
  11. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 254–256.
  12. 1 2 3 Hershkovitz 1994, p. 30.
  13. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 256–257.
  14. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 257–258.
  15. Hershkovitz 1994, p. 31.
  16. Hoffmann, Lessa & Smith 2002.
  17. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 258–259.
  18. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, p. 260.
  19. Hershkovitz 1994, p. 33.
  20. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 261–263.
  21. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 33–34.
  22. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 263–264.
  23. 1 2 Hershkovitz 1994, p. 34.
  24. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 264–267.
  25. Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 35–36.
  26. de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, pp. 267–268.

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