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.
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  12. 1 2 3 Hershkovitz 1994, p. 30.
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  15. ↑ Hershkovitz 1994, p. 31.
  16. ↑ Hoffmann, Lessa & Smith 2002.
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  18. ↑ de Oliveira & Gonçalves 2015, p. 260.
  19. ↑ Hershkovitz 1994, p. 33.
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  21. ↑ Hershkovitz 1994, pp. 33–34.
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  23. 1 2 Hershkovitz 1994, p. 34.
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