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Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord, 1825, the Hispid Cotton Rat, is a sigmodontine rodent with small ears, black eyes and feet, dense brownish-black pelage with bands of yellow just below the black tips, gray hairs on the ventrum, and a tail about 40% of total length. This account is an update of ...
Tylomys nudicaudus Peters, 1866, is a large cricetid commonly called Peter’s Climbing Rat. It can be distinguished from other members of Tylomys by its reddish-brown to light brown dorsal pelage, which becomes more intense on the flanks, whitish or pale reddish-yellow ventral pelage, and large, ...
Uroderma magnirostrum Davis, 1968, the Brown Tent-making Bat, is a medium-sized frugivorous phyllostomid. It is characterized by poorly defined facial and dorsal stripes, large bifid upper inner incisors, and a laterally expanded mesethmoid bone. Uroderma magnirostrum is widely distributed between ...
Otocolobus manul (Pallas, 1776) is a small, solitary, terrestrial felid commonly called the Manul and is the sole species of its genus. It occurs in Afghanistan, Armenia, Bhutan, China, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, ...
Callicebus oenanthe Thomas, 1924, commonly known as the San Martín Titi Monkey, is endemic to the northern portion of the department of San Martin, in the Alto Mayo and Huallaga river valleys. It lives in family groups, consisting of a monogamous pair and their offspring. It occurs at elevations ...
Oryzomys texensis Allen, 1894, the Texas Marsh Rice Rat, is a yellowish gray-brown oryzomyine rodent with whitish feet and venter, black eyes, small hairy ears, short vibrissae, and a tail about one-half of total length. It was elevated to species status based on the results of an extensive ...
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Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord, 1825, the Hispid Cotton Rat, is a sigmodontine rodent with small ears, black eyes and feet, dense brownish-black pelage with bands of yellow just below the black tips, gray hairs on the ventrum, and a tail about 40% of total length. This account is an update of Mammalian Species 158 on the ...
Martes martes ( Linnaeus, 1758 ), commonly called the European pine marten, is a small predator widespread in western Eurasia. In almost all its geographic distribution, it is autochthonous. It is as a secondary consumer but, a predator with omnivorous traits. Martes martes inhabits forests with varied tree compositions, ...
The South American hoary bat, Lasiurus villosissimus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1806 ), is a vespertilionid bat, endemic to South America and occurring in all countries except Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. It is one of the four species included in the subgenus Aeorestes . Lasiurus villosissimus is distinguishable ...
Hylobates moloch (Audebert, 1797), the Javan or silvery gibbon, is a pair-living small ape which is exclusively found in the western and central regions of the Indonesian island of Java. It represents the southernmost occurring species of the genus Hylobates and inhabits the canopy of tropical rainforests. It is foremost ...
Leopardus guigna ( Molina, 1782 ) is a felid commonly called the kodkod. It is the smallest cat in the Americas—about the size of a small house cat—and is 1 of 13 species in the genus Leopardus . Leopardus guigna has the smallest distribution of any New World felid, restricted to southern Chile and Argentina where it is ...
Mazama gouazoubira (Fischer [von Waldheim], 1814) is an ungulate commonly called gray brocket deer. Six morphological forms have been described, but it is currently considered as monotypic. It is a widespread medium-sized cervid, sexually dimorphic with males having antlers. The geographic distribution of M. gouazoubira ...
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