| Primordial tapecua1 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Tapecomys S. Anderson and Yates, 2000 |
| Species: | T. primus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tapecomys primus Anderson and Yates, 2000
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The primordial tapecua (Tapecomys primus) is a species of medium-sized rodent in the family Cricetidae. The type locality is in southeastern Bolivia. It is the only known species in the genus Tapecomys.1 Two specimens were found in 1991 in a forested region at an elevation of 1500 m near the village of Tapecua in the Tarija Department of Bolivia.3 A few additional specimens have been found since, from the type locality3 and from a location in Jujuy Province, northern Argentina.2
The holotype is held at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico MSB:Mamm:239826
References
References
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1178. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Dunnum, J.; Bernal, N.; Patterson, B. (2017). "Tapecomys primus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T136772A22333624. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T136772A22333624.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Anderson, Sydney; Yates, Terry L. (2000). "A new genus and species of Phyllotine rodent from Bolivia". Journal of Mammalogy. 81 (1): 18–36. doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<0018:ANGASO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1545-1542.