taxonID	type	description	language	source
94009707FF8EFD1D36B7FD82FF4DF847.taxon	distribution	General geographic distribution The new occurrences documented in the present work in addition to existing data on R. rufescens identified the southernmost occurrence of the species within the Atlantic forest around Indaial, Santa Catarina (27 ° 02 ’ S, 49 ° 08 ’ W), and the northernmost in the surroundings of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo State (19 º 58`S e 40 º 35`W), localities which are separated by at least 1173 km. All the known specimens / records of R. rufescens are summarized in Table 1, consisting in one individual from Viçosa (Mata do Paraíso), Minas Gerais state; one individual from Ubatuba (Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar), two from Morro Grande (Reserva Florestal do Morro Grande), both in São Paulo state; the holotype described by O. Thomas supposedly from Rio de Janeiro state and two additional specimens without precise information (Pinheiro et al. 2004; Percequillo et al. 2004; Pardini & Umetsu et al. 2006). GIS plotting of collecting localities indicate that R. rufescens occurs mainly in or nearby montane forests (Fig. 1).	en	Steiner-Souza, Francisco, Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro, Percequillo, Alexandre Reis, Testoni, André Filipe, Xix, Sérgio Luiz Althoff (2008): New records of Rhagomys rufescens (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Zootaxa 1824 (1): 28-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1824.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1824.1.3
