Holochilus
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Genus of rodents
| Holochilus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent
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| Holochilus brasiliensis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Tribe: | Oryzomyini |
| Genus: | Holochilus Brandt, 1835 |
| Type species | |
| Holochilus sciureus | |
| Species | |
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Holochilus brasiliensis | |
Holochilus is a genus of semiaquatic rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae,[1] sometimes called marsh rats. It contains five living species, H. brasiliensis , H. chacarius , H. nanus , H. oxe , and H. sciureus , which are widely distributed in South America east of the Andes. A fourth species from the Pleistocene of Bolivia was formerly classified as H. primigenus , but is now placed in the genus Reigomys .
References
[edit ]- ^ *Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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