Rheomys underwoodi

O. Thomas, 1906

Underwood's Water Mouse

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1906-04-01. A third genus of the Ichthyomys group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)17(100):421-423.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51472473

Original name as described

Rheomys Underwoodi

Other common names

Underwood's Ichthyomyine

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1907.5.30.5

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/7a29d278-e1c6-4d00-a470-1f9b885c9cfc

Type locality

Tres Ríos, Cartago, Costa Rica.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Costa Rica · Panama

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002503

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.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Rheomys Underwoodi

O. Thomas, 1906

Family

Cricetidae

Root name

underwoodi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1907.5.30.5

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/7a29d278-e1c6-4d00-a470-1f9b885c9cfc

Authority page

422

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51472473

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Goodwin (1946:403) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
Handley (1966:784, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2652338) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15322)
Corbet & Hill (1980:156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Hall (1981:776) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35037)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:463) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Voss (1988:353) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/2225)
Corbet & Hill (1991:164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Musser & Carleton (1993:743) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:408) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #19487) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #19487) (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 (2023:53) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59071)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002503) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19487/22354257) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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