Gray-bellied Brucie

Gray-bellied Brucie

Taxobox | name = Gray-bellied Brucie
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Brucepattersonius"
species = "B. griserufescens"
binomial = "Brucepattersonius griserufescens"
binomial_authority = Hershkovitz, 1998

The Gray-bellied Brucie, "Brucepattersonius griserufescens", is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil. It was one of four species of Brucie originally described by Hershkovitz (1998); another, the White-nosed Brucie ("B. albinasus"), was subsequently found to be the same species as the Gray-bellied Brucie (Vilela et al., 2006).

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.
*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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