Oxymycterus Waterhouse 1837

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]

• O. akodontius Thomas, 1921 Argentine hocicudo^[2]
• O. amazonicus Herzhkovitz, 1994^[3] Amazon hocicudo^[4]
• O. angularis Thomas, 1909 angular hocicudo^[5]
• O. caparaoe Hershkovitz, 1998 Caparao hocicudo^[6]
• O. dasytrichus (Schinz, 1821) Atlantic Forest hocicudo^[7][8]
• O. delator Thomas, 1903 spy hocicudo^[9][10]
• O. hiska Hinojosa, Anderson & Patton, 1987 small hocicudo^[11][12]
• O. hispidus Pictet, 1843 hispid hocicudo^[12]
• O. hucucha Hinojosa, Anderson & Patton, 1987 Quechuan hocicudo^[13][12]
• O. inca Thomas, 1900 Incan hocicudo^[14][15]
• O. itapeby Peçanha et al. 2019 Itapevi hocicudo rat^[1]
• O. josei Hoffmann, Lessa & Smith, 2002^[16] Cook's hocicudo^[17]
• O. nasutus (Waterhouse, 1837) long-nosed hocicudo^[18][19]
• O. paramensis Paramo hocicudo^[20][21]
• O. quaestor Thomas, 1903 Quaestor hocicudo^[22][23]
• O. roberti Thomas, 1901 Robert's hocicudo^[23]
• O. rufus (Fischer, 1814) red hocicudo^[24][25]
• O. wayku Jayat et al., 2008 ravine hocicudo^[26]

Citations

References

• 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.
• Hershkovitz, Philip (1994). "The Description of a New Species of South American Hocicudo, or Long-Nose Mouth, Genus Oxymycterus (Sigmodontinae, Muroidea), with a Critical Review of Generic Content". Fieldiana: Zoology. New Series. 79: 1–43. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3351.
• Hoffmann, Federico G.; Lessa, Enrique P.; Smith, Margaret F. (2002). "Systematics of Oxymycterus with Description of a New Species from Uruguay". Journal of Mammalogy. 83 (2): 408–420. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0408:SOOWDO>2.0.CO;2.
• de Oliveira, João; Gonçalves, Pablo R. (2015). "Gensu Oxymycterus Waterhose, 1837". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; D'Elía, Guillermo (eds.). Rodents. Mammals of South America. Vol. 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 247–268. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001. ISBN 9780226169576.
• Jayat, J. Pablo; D'Elía, Guillermo; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J.; Miotti, M. Daniela; Ortiz, Pablo E. (2008). "A new species of the genus Oxymycterus (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the vanishing Yungas of Argentina". Zootaxa. 1911 (1): 31–51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1911.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
• Waterhouse, G. B. (1837). "Characteristics of New Species of the Genus Mus, from the Collection of Mr. Darwin". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 5: 15–22. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1837.tb06823.x.