A New Species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Bolivia

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article EMMONS, LOUISE H., PATTON, JAMES L. (2005): A New Species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Bolivia. American Museum Novitates 3478 (1): 1-27, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)478[0001:ANSOOR]2.0.CO;2, URL: bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2005)478%5B0001%3AANSOOR%5D2.0.CO%3B2 ABSTRACT Specimens of Oryzomys referable to the megacephalus complex (Musser et al., 1998) collected in the Parque Nacional Noël Kempff Mercado (PNNKM), eastern Bolivia, are discriminated from three other currently recognized species of that group (O. megacephalus, O. perenensis, O. laticeps) by analysis of cranial morphometrics and molecular sequence of the cytochrome b gene.

The Bolivian sample has the closest genetic relationship to O. perenensis (Kimura 2­parameter genetic distance 3 100: 14.8) and O. laticeps (distance 12.0), but the genetic distance is large. The Bolivian sample is clearly separated from the others by both principal component and discriminant function analyses of cranial and body variables. We here describe it as a new species.