Ichthyomys pittieri

Handley & Mondolfi, 1963

Pittier's Crab-eating Rat

Captured in Venezuela, Aragua state, Henri Pittier National Park. Also as Pittier's Ichthyomyine, Pittier's Ichthyomys.
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Location:Date taken:28 February 1984Description:Captured in Venezuela, Aragua state, Henri Pittier National Park. Also as Pittier's Ichthyomyine, Pittier's Ichthyomys.

Distribution :

Cordillera Central, N Venezuela.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 4205

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Handley, C.O., Jr. and Mondolfi, E. 1963-11-26. A new species of fish-eating rat, Ichthyomys, from Venezuela (Rodentia Cricetidae). Acta Biologica Venezuelica 3(26):417-419.

Original name as described

Ichthyomys pittieri

Other common names

Pittier's Ichthyomyine · Pittier's Ichthyomys

Type material

USNM:MAMM:324987

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38e3c49dc-aa04-441c-a559-34a93e3d215c

Type locality

near the head of the Río Limón, Parque Nacional de Rancho Grande, Aragua, Venezuela.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Venezuela

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002490

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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.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Ichthyomys pittieri

Handley & Mondolfi, 1963

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

pittieri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:324987

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

near the head of the Río Limón, Parque Nacional de Ranho Grande, Estado Aragua, Venezuela

Type locality

Venezuela: Aragua.

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38e3c49dc-aa04-441c-a559-34a93e3d215c

Authority page

417

Authority publication

Acta Biologica Venezuelica

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1980:156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:420) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Voss (1988:334) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/2225)
Corbet & Hill (1991:163) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Musser & Carleton (1993:705) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:407) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10762) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10762) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Salazar-Bravo, Tinoco, Zeballos, Brito, Arenas-Viveros, Marín-C., Ramírez-Fernández, Percequillo, Lee, Solari, Colmenares-Pinzon, Nivelo, Rodríguez-Herrera, Merino, Medina, Murillo-García & Pardiñas (2023:52) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59071)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002490) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10762/22384567) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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