Cerradomys: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

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| image = Calomys laticeps Winge.png

| image_caption = ''Cerradomys'' sp.

| taxon = Cerradomys

| authority = [[Marcelo Weksler|Weksler]] et al., 2006

'''''Cerradomys''''' is a [[genus]] of [[oryzomyini|oryzomyine]] [[rodent]]s from eastern [[Bolivia]], [[Paraguay]], and central [[Brazil]] found in [[cerrado]], [[Caatinga]] and [[Gran Chaco]] habitats.

The species in this genus have historically been placed in ''[[Oryzomys]]'', but according to [[cladistics|cladistic]] research, they are not more closely related to the [[type species]] of ''Oryzomys'' than species in some other genera are. Its sister group may be a clade of oryzomyines living in open or aquatic habitats, comprising, among others, ''[[Aegialomys]]'', ''[[Nectomys]]'' and ''[[Sigmodontomys]]''. ''[[Sooretamys|Sooretamys angouya]]'', also formerly in ''Oryzomys'', is another relative; it has been placed in the same group as the species of ''Cerradomys'' in the past. The generic name ''Cerradomys'' is a compound of the word "Cerrado" and the Ancient Greek {{lang|grc|μῦς}} ''mys'' "mouse" and therefore means "Cerrado mouse".

In addition to its external classification, the internal classification of the group is also subject to change. Until 2002, all members of the group were placed in a single species, then called ''Oryzomys subflavus'', but since then, eight new species have been described, often on the basis of [[karyotype|karyotypic]] differences, but two of these later turned out to represent the same species.

*''[[Cerradomys akroai]]''

*''[[Cerradomys goytaca]]''

*Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3 ''Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed'']. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. {{ISBN|978-0-8018-8221-0}}

*Percequillo, A.R., Hingst-Zaher, E. and Bonvicino, C.R. 2008. [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5927 Systematic review of genus ''Cerradomys'' Weksler, Percequillo and Voss, 2006 (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with description of two new species from Eastern Brazil]. ''American Museum Novitates'' 3622:1–46.

*Tavares, W.C., Pessôa, L.M. and Gonçalves, P.R. 2011. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1644/10-MAMM-096.1 New species of ''Cerradomys'' from coastal sandy plainsofsoutheastern Brazil (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)] (subscription required). ''Journal of Mammalogy'' 92(3):645–658.

**{{cite journal | last1 = Weksler | first1 = M.

| last2 = Percequillo | first2 = A. R. | last3 = Voss | first3 = R. S.

| title = Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)

| journal = American Museum Novitates | issue = 3537 | pages = 1–29

| publisher = [[American Museum of Natural History]] | date = 2006-10-19 | hdl = 2246/5815 | doi= 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2| url = http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/2246/5815/1//v3/dspace/updateIngest/pdfs//N3537.pdf }}

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[[Category:Rodent genera]]

[[Category:Taxa named by Marcelo Weksler]]

[[Category:Taxa named by Alexandre Reis Percequillo]]