Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos (Wied-Neuwied, 1821)

Gutierrez, Eliecer E. & Marinho-Filho, Jader, 2017, The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, ZooKeys 644, pp. 105-157 : 122-123

Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos (Wied-Neuwied, 1821)

Distribution.

Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos is endemic to the Caatinga, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Alagoas, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, and Pernambuco ( Maia and Langguth 1987, Pereira and Geise 2009, Souza et al. 2011a, Bonvicino 2015, Nogueira et al. 2015). Bonvicino (2015) indicated that the species is also present in the state of Sergipe, but this assertion is based on an abstract presented at the XXIV Jornadas Argentinas de Mastozoología. Citation of this abstract is as follows:

Souza ALG, Pessôa LM, Menezes AN, Bezerra AMR, Bonvicino CR (2011) O rio São Francisco como provável barreira geográfica para as duas espécies do gênero Wiedomys ( Rodentia ). Revista del Museo de La Plata, Zoología 18(172): 163R. [abstract presented in the XXIV Jornadas Argentinas de Mastozoología, La Plata, Argentina, November 8-11, 2011].

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category "Least Concern" to Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos (see Marinho-Filho and Langguth 2016). The species was not included in the official list of threatened species of Brazil ( ICMBIO-MMA 2016).