Chinchillula sahamae

O. Thomas, 1898

Altiplano Chinchilla Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Chinchillulini
Genus : Chinchillula

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1898-04-01. On some new mammals from the neighbourhood of Mount Sahama, Bolivia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)1(4):277-283.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19365491

Original name as described

Chinchillula sahamae

Other common names

Achallo · Chinchillón · Carpinto

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1898.3.16.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1db11286-9b72-4443-a214-b54884c0e27e

Type locality

"Esperanza, ... neighbourhood of Mount Sahama, Bolivia. ... altitude of of 4000 metres [= 1219 m] in the ‘Puna' region."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Bolivia · Chile

Taxonomy notes

recently allocated to the tribe Chinchillulini after being considered incertae sedis at the tribal level

Taxonomy notes citation

Bangs, M.R., Percequillo, A.R., Pacheco, V.R. and Steppan, S.J. 2025. Phylogenomics of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Cloud forests and Pliocene extinction explain the timing and spread of an iconic South American radiation. PLoS ONE 20(11):e0317165. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0317165

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002505

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Chinchillula sahamae

O. Thomas, 1898

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

sahamae

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1898.3.16.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1db11286-9b72-4443-a214-b54884c0e27e

Authority page

280

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19365491

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Trouessart (1904:431, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423312) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  2. Gyldenstolpe (1932:100) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67179)
  3. Pearson (1951:148, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28873382) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72329)
  4. Hershkovitz (1962:490, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2745355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/2497)
  5. Corbet & Hill (1980:154) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  6. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:405) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  7. Corbet & Hill (1991:162) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  8. Musser & Carleton (1993:699) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
  9. Steppan (1995:88, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2843636) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/2648)
  10. Anderson (1997:454) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  11. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  12. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:410) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  13. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #4655) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  14. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #4655) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  15. D'Elía, Canto-Hernández, Ossa, Verde-Arregoitia, Bostelmann, Iriarte, Amador, Quiroga-Carmona, Hurtado, Cadenillas & Valdez (2020:75) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67620)
  16. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  17. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4655/22333118) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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