Wiedomys cerradensis Goncalves , Almeida & Bonvicino, 2005

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.644.10827

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scientific name

Wiedomys cerradensis Goncalves , Almeida & Bonvicino, 2005
status

 

Wiedomys cerradensis Goncalves, Almeida & Bonvicino, 2005

Distribution.

Wiedomys cerradensis is endemic to the Cerrado, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, and Tocantins ( Gonçalves et al. 2005, Bezerra et al. 2013, Bonvicino 2015, Gurgel-Filho et al. 2015). Gurgel-Filho et al. (2015) indicated that the species also occurs in the Brazilian states of Piauí, Maranhão, Paraíba, and Pernambuco, but did not provide evidence supporting this assertion.

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category "Data Deficient" to Wiedomys cerradensis (see Bonvicino and Marinho-Filho 2008b). The species was not included in the official list of threatened species of Brazil ( ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Wiedomys