Brazilian Shrew-mouse
Encyclopedia
Blarinomys breviceps, also known as the Brazilian Shrew-mouse or the Blarinine Akodont, is a rodent
in the tribe Akodontini
from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys.
Rodent
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing....
in the tribe Akodontini
Akodontini
Akodontini is the second most speciose tribe of the subfamily Sigmodontinae. It includes at least 106 living species in 19 genera and is distributed mainly in the southern half of South America, with only two genera extending into Guyana and Venezuela . It also includes genera previously placed in...
from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys.
Literature cited
- Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 312 pp. ISBN 071366021X
- Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
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