Dactylomys dactylinus (Desmarest 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Echimyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1575-1592 : 1576

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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scientific name	Dactylomys dactylinus (Desmarest 1817)
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[Dactylomys] dactylinus (Desmarest 1817) , Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., Vol. 10: 57.

Type Locality: Upper Amazon area (no locality in original description).

Vernacular Names: Amazon Bamboo Rat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Dactylomys dactylinus subsp. dactylinus Desmarest 1817

Subspecies Dactylomys dactylinus subsp. canescens Thomas 1912

Subspecies Dactylomys dactylinus subsp. modestus Lönnberg 1921

Distribution: N Brazil from near the mouth of the Amazon west to the base of the Andes in N Peru, Ecuador, and SW Colombia and south to N Bolivia; see Patton et al. (2000) for details.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Locally common.

Discussion: The genetic ( da Silva and Patton, 1993) and morphological ( Patton et al., 2000) divergence clearly support the recognition of dactylinus .