Thrichomys dandreai

Lazar, Weksler, & Bonvicino, 2025

D’Andrea's Punare

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricomorpha
Infraorder : Hystricognathi
Parvorder : Caviomorpha
Superfamily : Octodontoidea
Family : Echimyidae
Subfamily : Echimyinae
Tribe : Myocastorini
Genus : Thrichomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Lazar, A., Weksler, M. and Bonvicino, C.R. 2025-10-03. The hidden diversity in Thrichomys Trouessart, 1880 (Rodentia: Echimyidae): identity of T. pachyurus (Wagner 1845), and the description of a new species from Central Brazil. Mammalian Biology (in press).

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-025-00530-x

Original name as described

Thrichomys dandreai

Type material

MN 93435

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Brazil: Mato Grosso state, Chapada dos Guimarães, Cuiabá municipality, foothills of Morro do Cambambe (Figs. 1, S8, supplementary information 2); geographic coordinates: 15°11'44.58"S 55°58'17.76"W."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Lazar, A., Weksler, M. and Bonvicino, C.R. 2025. The hidden diversity in Thrichomys Trouessart, 1880 (Rodentia: Echimyidae): identity of T. pachyurus (Wagner 1845), and the description of a new species from Central Brazil. Mammalian Biology (in press). doi:10.1007/s42991-025-00530-x

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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