Neusticomys monticolus Anthony, 1921

VOSS, ROBERT S., 2003, A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental, American Museum Novitates 3421, pp. 1-48 : 24

Neusticomys monticolus Anthony

SPECIMENS COLLECTED: 8.2 km W Papallacta, 12,200 ft (UMMZ 155605, 155606); 6.2 km W Papallacta, 11,700 ft (UMMZ 155604); 1.6 km E Papallacta, 10,250 ft (UMMZ 126297; AMNH 244608, 244609).

OTHER MATERIAL: None.

TAXONOMY: The murid rodent tribe Ichthyomyini was revised by Voss (1988), who provided a morphological diagnosis of the genus Neusticomys and its constituent species based in part on this material.

FIELD OBSERVATIONS: The six specimens of Neusticomys monticolus that I collected near Papallacta in 1978 and 1980 were trapped on the ground at elevations ranging from 3042 to 3719 m. Of these, three were taken along small rivulets descending narrow ravines choked with secondary vegetation, and three others were taken along the wet margins of larger streams bordered by Subalpine Rain Forest or grassy páramo vegetation .