Pittier's crab-eating rat
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Ichthyomys |
Species: | I. pittieri
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Binomial name | |
Ichthyomys pittieri Handley & Mondolfi, 1963
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Pittier's crab-eating rat (Ichthyomys pittieri) is a species of semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is endemic to Venezuela. The natural habitats of this species are rivers and swamps. Its karyotype has 2n = 92 and FNa = 98. This was previously thought to be the highest chromosome number known for a mammal,[3] but it has since been found that the plains viscacha rat or red viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) has 4x = 2n = 102.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Roach, N.; Naylor, L.; McCay, S. (2019). "Ichthyomys pittieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T10762A22384567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T10762A22384567.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Ichthyomys pittieri Handley & Mondolfi, 1963". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.
- ^ Schmid, M.; Fernández-Badillo, A.; Feichtinger, W.; Steinlein, C.; Roman, J. I. (1988). "On the highest chromosome number in mammals". Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 49 (4): 305–8. doi:10.1159/000132683. PMID 3073914.
- ^ Contreras LC, Torres-Mura JC, Spotorno AE (1990). "The largest known chromosome number for a mammal, in a South American desert rodent". Experientia. 46 (5): 506–508. doi:10.1007/BF01954248. PMID 2347403.