- Brucie
Taxobox
name = Brucies
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Cricetidae
subfamilia =Sigmodontinae
tribus =Akodontini
genus = "Brucepattersonius"
genus_authority = Hershkovitz, 1998
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Brucepattersonius griserufescens "
"Brucepattersonius guarani "
"Brucepattersonius igniventris "
"Brucepattersonius iheringi "
"Brucepattersonius misionensis "
"Brucepattersonius paradisus "
"Brucepattersonius soricinus ":"For uses of Brucie as a nickname please see
Brucey ."The Brucies are a recently described
genus ofSouth America n cricetidrodents , "Brucepattersonius".The genus, and four species, were described in a paper by Hershkovitz (1998). They are all found in the Atlantic
rain forest s of south-easternBrazil . Subsequently, Mares and Braun (2000) have assigned three further species, found during the 1990s in the neighbouring Misiones province ofArgentina and previously unidentified, to the same genus. One of Hershkovitz's species was subsequently found to be identical to another by Vilela et al. (2006). The genus was named in honour of Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator at the Department of Zoology (Mammals), TheField Museum of Natural History ,Chicago .The brucies belong to the subfamily
Sigmodontinae and the tribeAkodontini . They are ground-dwellers, and may have a preference for higher altitudes within the rain forest area. Each species is thought to be restricted to a limited area. It is uncertain if they are all distinct species, since many are known from very few specimen (notably the three Argentine species, which were each described from a single specimen), which makes it difficult to know how variable Brucies are.The following seven species are now classified in the genus:
*Gray-bellied Brucie "Brucepattersonius griserufescens"
*Guaraní Brucie "Brucepattersonius guarani"
*Red-bellied Brucie "Brucepattersonius igniventris"
*Ihering's Hocicudo "Brucepattersonius iheringi"
*Misiones Brucie "Brucepattersonius misionensis"
*Arroyo of Paradise Brucie "Brucepattersonius paradisus"
*Soricine Brucie "Brucepattersonius soricinus"Ihering's Hocuicudo was known earlier than the other species, and had formerly been classified in various ways, most recently in genus "Oxymycterus".
References
*Hershkovitz, P. (1998). Report of some sigmodontinae rodents collected in southeastern Brazil with description of a new genus and six new species. "Bonner Zoologische Beitraege, 47", 193-256.
* [http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/pdf/2000/00-04.pdf Mares, M. A., and J. K. Braun (2000)] . Three new species of "Brucepattersonius" (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Misiones Province, Argentina. "Occasional Papers of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 9", 1-3.
*Vilela, J. F., J. A. de Oliveira, and C. R. Bonvicino (2006). Taxonomic status of "Brucepattersonius albinasus" (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). "Zootaxa, 1199", 61-68.
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