Holochilus Brandt 1835
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Holochilus

description: <i>Holochilus</i> Brandt, 1835. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, 3(2):428. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus (Holochilus) leucogaster</i> Brandt, 1835 (= Mus <i>brasiliensis</i> Desmarest, 1819). COMMENTS: Arranged by Hershkovitz (1955a) as one of four genera of sigmodont rodents. Based on reproductive anatomy, Hooper and Musser (1964a) remarked that <i>Holochilus</i> may represent a "well differentiated oryzomyine rather than a sigmodont." Standard karyotypic data have provided little resolution of generic affinities (Gardner and Patton, 1976) but g-banded evaluations supported an oryzomyine affiliation (R. J. Baker et al., 1983a). Retained, with <i>Sigmodon</i> proper, in the tribe Sigmodontini by Reig (1984, 1986). Genus revised by Hershkovitz (1955a), who consolidated 13 nominal species (e.g., Ellerman, 1941) under <i>H. brasiliensis</i> and diagnosed a new one, <i>H. magnus.</i> Subsequent studies have revealed that <i>brasiliensis</i> of Hershkovitz (1955a) is a composite of three or more species (Aguilera and Perez-Zapata, 1989; Gardner and Patton, 1976; Massoia, 1980 a, 1981; Reig, 1986). In general, evidence for the species acknowledged below issues from more localized studies that lack the perspective of a full generic review; these names, distributions, and synonyms must therefore be accepted as tentative pending such a synoptic revision. Association of synonyms basically observes the species classification of Massoia (1980a).
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 704, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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