Oxymycterus hucucha Hinojosa, S. Anderson & Patton 1987 ...

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae; Oxymycterus; Oxymycterus hucucha; Lynx; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6727406; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6727406

534. Quechuan Hocicudo Oxymycterus hucucha French: Hocicudo quechua / German: Quechua-Grabmaus / Spanish: Ratén hocicudo de los Quechuas Other common names: Hucucha Taxonomy. Oxymycterus hucucha Hinojosa, S. Anderson & Patton, 1987, “ 28 km by road W of Comarapa (Santa Cruz) but in the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia, at 2800 m elev.; lat. 17°51’S and long. 64°40 'W.” This species is monotypic. Distribution. C Bolivia in the Siberia Cloud Forest, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz departments. Descriptive notes. Head-body 99-109 mm, tail 71-75 mm, ear 14-15 mm, hindfoot 21 mm; weight 26-36 g. See general characters of the genus under the Amazonian Hocicudo (O. amazonicus) account. The Quechuan Hocicudois a small species of Oxymycterus. Dorsum is blackish gray, with tips of dorsal hairs conspicuously paler and reddish; venter is ocherous. Habitat. Mostly cloud forest, with trees 6 m high, trunks covered with lichens, and dense ground cover of lichens, ferns, and mushrooms at elevations of ¢.2600-3000 m. Food and ... : Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Cricetidae, pp. 204-535 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on pages 466-467, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6707142 ...