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Expanding the knowledge on a desert sigmodontine rodent in Central Argentina with remarks on its conservation status

  • Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Mauro N. Tammone ORCID logo , Damián Voglino und Erika Cuéllar Soto ORCID logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 21. Mai 2021
Mammalia
Aus der Zeitschrift Mammalia Band 85 Heft 6

Abstract

The monotypic genus Salinomys (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) includes tiny mice with specialist adaptations to desert habitats characteristic of Argentinian shrubland. We report on a population of Salinomys delicatus from Central La Pampa Province, Argentina, representing a 450 km southerly extension to its known distribution. Importantly, this stresses the necessity for further discussion of the validity of its conservation status, recently updated from Data Deficient to Vulnerable. Furthermore, we highlight aspects from its morphology that could help in future proper identification of specimens. Finally, we propose that this species should be retained as Data Deficient pending additional investigation.

Keywords: IUCN red list; La Pampa; Phyllotini; Salinomys ; Sigmodontinae
Corresponding author: Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas, Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral (IDEAus-CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina; and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

The field trip to La Pampa Province was undertaken with the field assistance of M. Lareschi, P. Teta, and F. Fernández and the economic support of Agencia PICT 2008-547. J. M. López kindly shared data on the occurrence of Salinomys in Mendoza Province. G. Lyon improved the English and the same was made by an anonymous reviewer. To the mentioned persons and institutions, our appreciation.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2021-0020).

Received: 2021-02-05
Accepted: 2021-03-25
Published Online: 2021-05-21
Published in Print: 2021-11-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2021-0020
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
IUCN red list; La Pampa; Phyllotini; Salinomys; Sigmodontinae

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Ecology
  3. Diet composition of Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus) from the Han River Estuary Wetland in Korea using fecal DNA
  4. Horn growth patterns of Nubian ibex from the Sinai, Egypt
  5. State of knowledge and updated distribution of the northern naked-tailed armadillo Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899 (Cingulata, Chlamyphoridae)
  6. Diet of Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) in Andean forest
  7. Spatial variation of small mammal communities in northwestern Argentina
  8. Temporal variation in the diet of the endemic and threatened rodent Kerodon rupestris in the semiarid area of Brazil
  9. First quantitative data on the feeding ecology of an arid zone rodent, the Common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi)
  10. Adult males in maternity colonies of Daubenton’s bat, Myotis daubentonii: what are they?
  11. Record of bats and their echolocation calls from southern Dolakha, central Nepal
  12. Conservation
  13. Expanding the knowledge on a desert sigmodontine rodent in Central Argentina with remarks on its conservation status
  14. Biogeography
  15. A rangewide distribution model for the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul): identifying potential new survey regions for an understudied small cat
  16. First records of the bats Eumops bonariensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) and Pteronotus fuscus (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) in Peru
  17. A new locality record for the Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus
  18. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  19. Long-standing taxonomic confusion over the identity of Hypudaeus syriacus Brants, 1827, at last resolved
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