Publication Cover
Historical Biology
An International Journal of Paleobiology
Volume 32, 2020 - Issue 5
148
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Noteworthy sigmodontine (Rodentia: Cricetidae) diversity in southern Brazil as an indication of environmental change during the Holocene

, , , , &
Pages 649-670 | Received 21 May 2018, Accepted 13 Sep 2018, Published online: 15 Oct 2018

References

  • Anderson S, Olds N. 1989. Notes on Bolivian mammals. 5. Taxonomy and distribution of Bolomys (Muridae, Rodentia). Am Mus Novit. 2935:1–22.
  • Andrews P. 1990. Owls, caves and fossils: predation, preservation, and accumulation of small mammal bones in caves, with an analysis of the Pleistocene cave faunas from Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, UK. Chicago (IL): University Of Chicago Press.
  • Asfora PH, Palma ART, Astúa D, Geise L. 2011. Distribution of Oecomys catherinae Thomas, 1909 (Rodentia: cricetidae) in northeastern Brazil with karyotypical and morphometrical notes. Biota Neotrop. 11(2):415–424.
  • Barlow JC. 1969. Observations on the biology of rodents in Uruguay. Life Science Contributions; no. 75. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.
  • Barnosky AD. 1993. Faunal response to glacial–interglacial transitions in the western United States. Proceedings of the 6th International Theriological Congress; Jul 4 –10; Sidney, Australia.
  • Bauermann SG. 2003. Análises palinológicas e evolução paleovegetacional e paleoambiental das turfeiras de Barrocadas e Águas Claras, planície costeira do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil [thesis]. Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Behling H, Pillar VDP, Orlóci L, Bauermann SG. 2004. Late Quaternary Araucaria forest, grassland (Campos), fire and climate dynamics, studied by high-resolution pollen, charcoal and multivariate analysis of the Cambará do Sul core in southern Brazil. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 203:277–297.
  • Beisaw AM. 2013. Identifying and interpreting animal bones: a manual. College Station (ON): Texas AS&M Press.
  • Betat VS. 2012. Distribuição da subfamília Sigmodontinae (Mammalia, Rodentia) no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil [dissertation]. Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Bezerra AMR. 2015. Genus Kunsia Hershkovitz, 1966. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 228–231.
  • Bezerra AMR, Pardiñas UFJ. 2016. Kunsia tomentosus (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Mamm Species. 48(930):1–9.
  • Bonvicino CR, Fernandes FA, Viana MC, Teixeira BR, D’Andrea PS. 2013. Scapteromys aquaticus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in Brazil with comments on karyotype and phylogenetics relationships. Zoologia. 30(2):242–247.
  • Bonvicino CR, Oliveira JA, D’Andrea PS. 2008. Guia dos roedores do Brasil, com chaves para gêneros baseadas em caracteres externos. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Pan-Americano de Febre Aftosa - OPAS/OMS.
  • Bonvicino CR, Weksler M. 2015. Genus Nectomys Peters, 1861. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 368–377.
  • Boroni Martins NL. 2012. Richness and abundance of rodents (Rodentia, Mammalia) in own pellets of karst region of central Minas Gerais, Brazil [dissertation]. Viçosa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa.
  • Carleton MD, Musser GG. 1989. Systematic studies of Oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae): a synopsis of Microryzomys. Bull Am Mus Nat His. 191:1–83.
  • Carleton MD, Musser GG. 2015. Genus Oecomys Thomas, 1906. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 393–417.
  • Carleton MD, Olson SL. 1999. Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha: a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae: sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil’s continental shelf. Am Mus Novit. 3256:1–59.
  • Catterall CP, Piper SD, Bunn SE, Arthur JM. 2001. Flora and fauna assemblages vary with local topography in a subtropical eucalypt forest. Austral Ecol. 26:56–69.
  • Cerqueira R. 1975. Sobre a localidade tipo de Holochilus brasiliensis (Brants, 1827) (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Ver Bras Biol. 35:31–34.
  • Chiquito EA. 2015. Sistemática do gênero Nectomys Peters, 1861 (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) [thesis]. Piracicaba: Universidade de São Paulo.
  • Chiquito EA, D’Elía G, Percequillo AR. 2014. Taxonomic review of genus Sooretamys Weksler, Percequillo & Voss (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Zool J Linn Soc. 171(4):842–877.
  • Christoff AU, Fagundes V, Sbalqueiro IJ, Mattevi MS, Yonenaga-Yassuda Y. 2000. Description of a new species of Akodon (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Southern Brazil. J Mammal. 81(3):838–851.
  • Christoff AU, Peters FB, Roth PRO, Coelho EL, Jung DMH, organizers. 2013. Capítulo VI: Myomorpha. In: Weber MM, Roman C, Cáceres NC, editors. Mamíferos do Rio Grande do Sul. Santa Maria: Ed. da UFSM; p. 287–343.
  • Christoff AU, Vieira EM, Oliveira LR, Gonçalves JW, Valiati VH, Tomasi PS. 2016. A new species of Juliomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil. J Mammal. 97(3):1–14.
  • D’Elía G, Pardiñas UFJ. 2015. Genus Scapteromys Waterhouse, 1837. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 269–274.
  • Dias AS. 2003. Sistemas de assentamento e estilo tecnológico: uma proposta interpretativa para a ocupação pré-colonial do alto vale do rio dos Sinos, Rio Grande do Sul [thesis]. Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Dias D. 2016. Sistemática molecular, biogeografia e diversificação de Brucepatttersonius (Rodentia: Cricetidae) [dissertation]. Vitória: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.
  • Faria GMM, Passamani M. 2013. Dieta da coruja-da-igreja (Tyto alba, Scopoli, 1769) no Sul de Minas Gerais e sua relação com disponibilidade de presas. Rev Bras Zoociências. 15(1, 2, 3):247–252.
  • Fernández FJ, Montalvo CI, Fernández-Jalvo Y, Andrews P, López JM. 2017. A re-evaluation of the taphonomic methodology for the study of small mammal fossil assemblages of South America. Quat Sci Rev. 155:37–49.
  • Fernández FJ, Papa LM, Mange E, Teta P, Montero EC, Pardiñas UFJ. 2016. Human subsistence and environmental stability during the last 2200 years in Epullán Chica cave (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina): a perspective from the zooarchaeological record. Quatern Int. 391:38–50.
  • Flores TA. 2010. Diversidade morfológica e molecular do gênero Oecomys Thomas, 1906 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) na Amâzonia oriental brasileira [dissertation]. Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará.
  • Freitas TRO, Mattevi MS, Oliveira LFB. 1983. G- and C-banded karyotype of Reithrodon auritus from Brazil. J Mammal. 64(2):318–321.
  • Galliari CA, Pardiñas UFJ. 2000. Taxonomy and distribution of the sigmodontine rodents of genus Necromys in central Argentina and Uruguay. Acta Theriol. 45(2):211–232.
  • Garbino GST, Nogueira MR. 2017. On the mammals collected by Friedrich Sellow in Brazil and Uruguay (1814–1831), with special reference to the types and their provenance. Zootaxa. 4221(2):172–190.
  • Gonçalves PR, Myers P, Vilela JF, Oliveira JA. 2007. Systematics of the species of the genus Akodon (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in southeastern Brazil and implications for the biogeography of the Campos de Altitude. Misc Publ Mus Zool Univ Mich. 197:1–24.
  • Gonçalves PR, Oliveira JA. 2014. An integrative appraisal of the diversification in the Atlantic forest genus Delomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with the description of a new species. Zootaxa. 3760(1):1–38.
  • Gonçalves PR, Teta P, Bonvicino CR. 2015. Genus Holochilus Brandt, 1835. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 325–335.
  • González EM. 2000. Un nuevo género de roedor sigmodontino de Argentina y Brasil (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Comun Zool Mus Hist Nat Montev. 12(196):1–12.
  • González EM, Claramunt SJ, Saralegui AM. 1999. Mammals found In Tyto alba (Aves, Strigiformes) pellets in Bagé, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil. Iheringia Sér Zool. 86:117–120.
  • González EM, Oliveira JA, Pardiñas UFJ. 2015b. Genus Wilfredomys Avila–Pires, 1960. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 105–107.
  • González EM, Oliveira JA, Teta P. 2015a. Genus Juliomys E. M. González, 2000. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 92–96.
  • González EM, Pardiñas UFJ. 2002. Deltamys kempi. Mamm Species. 711:1–4.
  • González-Ittig RE, Kandel N, Levis S, Calderón G, Salazar-Bravo J, Gardenal CN. 2014. Molecular systematics of the South American rodent Calomys laucha (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), a reservoir of the Laguna Negra hantavirus. Can J Zool. 92(12):1093–1098.
  • Hadler P, Cherem JJ, Turbay R, Alberti A, Pardiñas UFJ. 2016. Diversidade de pequenos mamíferos (Didelphimorphia e Rodentia) do Holoceno do nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: implicações taxonômicas e paleoambientais. Rev Bras Paleontol. 19(1):126–144.
  • Hadler P, Ferigolo J. 2004. Roedores pleistocênicos da planície costeira do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Rev Bras Paleontol. 7(2):231–238.
  • Hadler P, Ferigolo J, Ribeiro AM. 2010. Chiroptera (Mammalia) from the Holocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Acta Chiropt. 12(1):19–27.
  • Hadler P, Goin FJ, Ferigolo J, Ribeiro AM. 2009. Environmental change and marsupial assemblages in Holocene successions of Southern Brazil. Mamm Biol. 74(2):87–99.
  • Hadler P, Verzi DH, Vucetich MG, Ferigolo J, Ribeiro AM. 2008. Caviomorphs (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Holocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: systematics and paleoenvironmental context. Rev Bras Paleontol. 11(2):97–116.
  • Hammer Ø. 1999–2018. PAST. PAleontological STatistics. Version 3.15. Reference Manual. Oslo: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1944. A systematic review of the neotropical water rats of the genus Nectomys (Cricetinae). Misc Publ Mus Zool Univ Mich. 1(58):9–101.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1955. South American marsh rats, genus Holochilus, with a summary of sigmodont rodents. Fieldiana Zool. 37(24):639–687.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1960. Mammals of northern Colombia, preliminary report No. 8: arboreal rice rats, a systematic revision of the subgenus Oecomys, genus Oryzomys. Proc US Natl Mus. 110(3429):513–568.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1962. Evolution of neotropical cricetine rodentes (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. Fieldiana Zool. 46:1–524.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1966. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae) with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Z Säugetierk. 31:81–149.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1990. Mice of the Akodon boliviensis size class (Sigmodontinae, Cricetidae), with the description of two new species from Brazil. Fieldiana Zool. 57:1–35.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1993. A new central Brazilian genus and species of sigmodontine rodent (Sigmodontinae) transitional between akodonts and oryzomyines, with a discussion of muroid molar morphology and evolution. Fieldiana Zool. 75:1–18.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1994. The description of a new species of South American hocicudo, or long–nose mouse, genus Oxymycterus (Sigmodontinae, Muroidea), with a critical review of the generic content. Fieldiana Zool. 79:1–43.
  • Hershkovitz P. 1998. Report on some sigmodontine rodents collected in southeastern Brazil with descriptions of a new genus and six new species. Bonn Zool Beitr. 47(3–4):193–256.
  • Hinojosa F, Anderson S, Patton JL. 1987. Two new species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia) from Peru and Bolivia. Am Mus Novit. 2898:1–17.
  • Langguth A. 1963. Las especies uruguayas del genero Oryzomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Com Zool Mus Hist Nat Montev. 7(99):1–19.
  • Lessa G, Gonçalves PR, Pessôa LM. 2005. Variação geográfica em caracteres cranianos quantitativos de Kerodon rupestris (Wied, 1820) (Rodentia, Caviidae). Arq Mus Nac. 63(1):75–88.
  • Libardi GS. 2013. Variação não–geográfica em Necromys lasiurus (Lund, 1840) (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) no Brasil [dissertation]. Piracicaba: Universidade de São Paulo.
  • Macedo RB, Souza PA, Bauermann SG, Bordignon SAL. 2010. Palynological analysis of a Late Holocene core from Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil. An Ac Bras Cienc. 82(3):731–745.
  • Machado LF, Paresque R, Christoff AU. 2011. Anatomia comparada e morfometria de Oligoryzomys nigripes e O. flavescens (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Pap Avulsos Zool. 51(3):29–47.
  • Maestri R, Patterson BD. 2016. Patterns of species richness and turnover for the South American rodent fauna. PLoS ONE. 11(3):1–18.
  • Massoia E. 1981a. La variabilidad morfologica de los molares de Scapteromys del delta do Parana (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). Hist Nat. 2(9):57–63.
  • Massoia E. 1981b. El estado sistemático y zoogeografía de Mus brasiliensis Desmarest y Holochilus sciureus Wagner (Mammalia-Rodentia-Cricetidae). Physis Secc C. 39(97):31–34.
  • Massoia E, Fornes A. 1964. Notas sobre el género Scapteromys (Rodentia-Cricetidae). I. Sistemática, distribución geográfica y rasgos etoecológicos de Scapteromys tumidus (Waterhouse). Physis Secc C. 24:279–297.
  • Montes MA, Oliveira LFB, Bonatto SL, Callegari–Jacques SM, Mattevi MS. 2008. DNA sequence analysis and the phylogeographical history of the rodent Deltamys kempi (Sigmodontinae, Cricetidae) on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of south of Brazil. J Evol Biol. 21(6):1823–1835.
  • Naiman RJ, Bilby RE, Bisson PA. 2000. Riparian ecology and management in the Pacific coastal rain forest. Bioscience. 50(11):996–1011.
  • Naiman RJ, Décamps H. 1997. The ecology of interfaces: riparian zones. Annu Rev Ecol Syst. 28(1):621–658.
  • Neves SB, Mayer EL, Hadler P, Ribeiro AM. 2017. Sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Quaternary cave deposits of Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil. Rev Bras Paleontol. 20(2):163–178.
  • Oliveira EV. 1992. Mamíferos fósseis do Quaternário do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil [dissertation]. Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Oliveira JA, Gonçalves PR. 2015. Genus Oxymycterus Waterhouse, 1837. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 247–268.
  • Oliveira PE, Behling H, Ledru MP, Barberi M, Bush M, Salgado-Laboriau ML, Garcia MJ, Medeanic S, Barth OM, Barros MA, et al. 2005. Paleovegetação e paleoclimas do Quaternário do Brasil. In: Souza CLG, Suguio K, Oliveira AMS, Oliveira PE, editors. Quaternário do Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Holos; p. 52–74.
  • Ortiz PE, Jayat P, Pardiñas UFJ. 2011. Fossil sigmodontine rodents of Northwestern Argentina: taxonomy and paleoenvironmental meaning. In: Salfity JA, Marquilla RA, editors. Cenezoic geology of the central Andes of Argentina. Salta: SCS Publisher; p. 301–315.
  • Pardiñas UFJ. 1996. El registro fóssil de Bibimys Massoia, 1979 (Rodentia) en la Argentina. Consideraciones sobre los Scapteromyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) y su distribucion durante el Plioceno-Holoceno en la region pampeana. Mastozool Neotrop. 3(1):15–38.
  • Pardiñas UFJ. 1999. Los roedores muroideos del Pleistoceno tardio-Holoceno en la region pampeana (sector este) y Patagonia (Republica Argentina): Aspectos taxonomicos, importancia bioestratigrafica y significacion paleoambiental [thesis]. La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
  • Pardiñas UFJ. 2018. Corrections and emendations to the description of Deltamys araucaria Quintela et al., 2017 (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Zootaxa. 4379(1):134–136.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Barbière F. 2017. The Pleistocene record attributed to the cricetid genus Nectomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae): unexpected connections. Mammalia. 82(2):1–6.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Galliari CA. 1998. Sigmodontinos (Rodentia, Muridae) del Holoceno Inferior de Bolivia. Rev Esp Paleontol. 13(1):17–25.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Galliari CA. 2001. Reithrodon auritus. Mamm Species. 664:1–8.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Teta P. 2013. Taxonomic status of Mus talpinus Lund (Rodentia: sigmodontinae) from the Quaternary deposits of Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil and its paleoenvironmental meaning. Mammalia. 77(3):347–355.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Teta P. 2015. Genus Deltamys Thomas, 1917. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 219–222.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, Ortiz PE. 2002. Sigmodontinos fósiles (Rodentia, Muroidea, Sigmodontinae) de América del Sur: estado actual de su conocimento y prospectiva. Mastozool Neotrop. 2(9):209–252.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, Teta P. 2009. Una introducción a los mayores sigmodontinos vivientes: revisión de Kunsia Hershkovitz, 1966 y descripción de un nuevo género (Rodentia: cricetidae). Arq Mus Nac. 66(3–4):509–594.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, Teta P. 2015a. Genus Bibimys Massoia, 1979. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 204–208.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Galliari CA, Teta P. 2015b. Genus Reithrodon Waterhouse, 1837. In: Patton Jl, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 559–565.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Prevosti FJ, Voglino D, Cenizo MA. 2017a. Controversial unit within the Argentine Neogene: the “Irenean” fauna. Ameghiniana. 54(6):655–680.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Teta P, Voglino D, Fernández FJ. 2013. Enlarging rodent diversity in west-central Argentina: a new species of the genus Holochilus (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae). J Mammal. 94(1):231–240.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Teta P, Ortiz PE, Jayat JP, Salazar-Bravo J. 2015c. Genus Necromys Ameghino, 1889. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 232–247.
  • Pardiñas UFJ, Teta P, Alvarado-Serrano D,  Geise L,  Jayat JP,  Ortiz PE,  Gonçalves PR,  D’Elía G. 2015d. Genus Akodon Thomas, 1917. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 144–204.
  • Pardiñas UFJ,  Myers P,  León-Paniagua L,  Garza NO,  Cook J,  Kryštufek B,  Haslauer R,  Bradley R,  Shenbrot G,  Patton JL. 2017b. Family Cricetidae. In: Wilson DE, Lacher TE, Mittermeier RA, editors. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 7 Rodents II. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions; p. 204–279
  • Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G. 2015. Mammals of South America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Pearson OP, Pearson AK. 1993. La fauna de mamíferos pequeños de Cueva Traful I, Argentina: pasado y presente. Praehistoria. 1:211–224.
  • Percequillo AR. 2015. Genus Sooretamys Weksler, Percequillo and Voss, 2006. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 451–454.
  • Percequillo AR, Gonçalves PR, Oliveira JA. 2004. The rediscovery of Rhagomys rufescens (Thomas, 1886), with a morphological redescription and comments on its systematic relationships based on morphological and molecular (cytochrome b) characters. Mamm Biol. 69(4):238–257.
  • Peters FB, Roth PRO, Machado LF, Coelho EL, Jung DMH, Christoff AU. 2010. Assembléia de mamíferos dos agroecossistemas constituintes da bacia hidrográfica do rio da Várzea, Rio Grande do Sul. Biotemas. 23(4):91–107.
  • Pires C, Avilla L, Weksler M. 2018. Fossil cricetid rodents from the Quaternary of northern Brazil and their paleoenvironmental significance. Ameghiniana. 55(2):162–178.
  • Prado JR, Brennand PGG, Godoy LP, Libardi GS, Abreu-Júnior EF, Roth PRO, Chiquito EA, Percequillo AR. 2014. Species richness and areas of endemism of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) in South America: an ndm/vndm approach. J Biogeogr. 42(3):540–551.
  • Queiroz AN. 2004. Étude des vertébrés du site archéologique RS–TQ–58, Montenegro, RS, Brésil: aspects archéozoologiques et taphonomiques. In: Goñalons GLM, editor. Zooarchaeology of South America. Oxford: Bar International Series; p. 153–176.
  • Quintela FM, Bertuol F, González EM, Cordeiro-Estrela P, Freitas TRO, Gonçalves GL. 2017. A new species of Deltamys Thomas, 1917 (Rodentia: cricetidae) endemic to the southern Brazilian Araucaria Forest and notes on the expanded phylogeographic scenario of D. kempi. Zootaxa. 4294(1):71–92.
  • Quintela FM, Gonçalves GL, Bertuol F, González EM, Freitas TRO. 2015. Genetic diversity of the swamp rat in South America: population expansion after transgressive-regressive marine events in the Late Quaternary. Mamm Biol. 80(6):510–517.
  • Quintela FM, Gonçalves JL, Althoff SL, Sbalqueiro IJ, Oliveira LFB, Freitas TRO. 2014b. A new species of swamp rat of the genus Scapteromys Waterhouse, 1837 (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) endemic to Araucaria angustifolia Forest in Southern Brazil. Zootaxa. 3811(2):207–225.
  • Quintela FM, Silveira EC, Dellagnese DG, Cadermatori CV. 2014a. Calomys tener (Winge, 1887) (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): filling gaps. Check List. 10(3):650–654.
  • Reig OA. 1972. The evolutionary history of the South American cricetid rodents [thesis]. London: University of London, Londres.
  • Reig OA. 1977. A proposed unified nomenclature for the enamelled components of the molar teeth of the Cricetidae (Rodentia). J Zool. 181:227–241.
  • Reig OA. 1987. An assessment of the systematics and evolution of the Akodontini, with the description of new fossil species of Akodon (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Fieldiana Zool. 39:347–399.
  • Rodríguez FG, editor. 2011. El Holoceno en la zona costera de Uruguay. Montevideo: Univerdad de la República.
  • Sabo JL, Sponseller R, Dixon M, Gade K, Harms T, Heffernan J, Jani A, Katz G, Soykan C, Watts J, et al. 2005. Riparian zones increase regional species richness by harbouring different, not more, species. Ecology. 86(1):56–62.
  • Salazar-Bravo J. 2015. Genus Calomys Waterhouse, 1837. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D'Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 481–507.
  • Salles LO, Cartelle C, Guedes PG, Boggiani PC, Janoo A, Russo CAM. 2006. Quaternary mammals from Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Bol Mus Nac. 521:1–12.
  • Salles LO, Carvalho GS, Weksler M, Sicuro FL, Abreu F, Camardella A, Guedes PG, Avilla LS, Abrantes EAP, Sahate V, et al. 1999. Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil). Publ Avul Mus Nac. 78:1–15.
  • Scheibler DR, Christoff AU. 2004. Small mammals in the diet of barn owls (Tyto alba) in agroecosystems of southern Brazil. Ornitol Neotrop. 15:65–70.
  • Stutz NS, Cherem JJ, Ufj P, Hadler P. 2017. Roedores sigmodontíneos (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) holocênicos do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil – o sítio RS-TQ-58: Afonso Garivaldino Rodrigues. Rev Bras Paleontol. 20(1):133–148.
  • Suárez-Villota EY, Carmignotto AP, Brandão MV, Percequillo AR, Silva MJJ. 2017. Systematics of the genus Oecomys (Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini): molecular phylogenetic, cytogenetic and morphological approaches reveal cryptic species. Zool J Linn Soc. XX:1–29.
  • Tammone MN, Lacey E, Hajduk A, Christie M, Pardiñas UFJ. 2016. The Quaternary record of Euneomys (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) from northwestern Patagonia: evidence for regional extinction. J Vert Paleontol. 36(6):e1212363.
  • Terry RC. 2010. On raptors and rodents: testing the ecological fidelity and spatiotemporal resolution of cave death assemblages. Paleobiology. 36(1):137–160.
  • Teta P, Formoso A, Tammone M, Tommaso DC, Fernández FJ, Torres J, Pardiñas UFJ. 2014. Micromamíferos, cambio climático e impacto antrópico: ¿Cuánto han cambiado las comunidades del sur de América del Sur en los últimos 500 años? Therya. 5(1):7–38.
  • Thomas O. 1917. VI. On the small mammals of the delta of the Parana. J Nat Hist Series 8. 20(115):95–100.
  • Tomazelli LJ, Dillenburg SR, Villwock JA. 2000. Late Quaternary geological history of Rio Grande do Sul coastal plain, southern Brazil. Rev Bras Geocienc. 30(3):474–476.
  • Torres J, Teta P, Filippi V, Owen R, Pardiñas UFJ. 2015. First fossil record of sigmodontine rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae) for Paraguay: taxonomy and and Late Pleistocene environments. Ameghiniana. 52(5):574–581.
  • Ubilla M, Perea D, Aguilar CG, Lorenzo N. 2004. Late Pleistocene vertebrates from northern Uruguay: tools for biostratigraphic, climatic and environmental reconstruction. Quat Int. 114(1):129–142.
  • Ventura K, Fagundes V, D’Elía G, Christoff AU, Yonenaga-Yassuda Y. 2011. A new allopatric lineage of the rodent Deltamys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) and the chromosomal evolution in Deltamys kempi and Deltamys sp. Cytogenet Genome Res. 135(2):126–134.
  • Vilela JF, Gonçalves PR, Oliveira JA. 2015. Genus Brucepattersonius Hershkovitz, 1998. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 211–218.
  • Voglino D, Pardiñas UFJ. 2005. Roedores sigmodontinos (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) y otros micromamíferos pleistocénicos del norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina): reconstrucción paleoambiental para el Ensenadense cuspidal. Ameghiniana. 42(1):143–158.
  • Voss RS. 1993. A revision of the Brazilian muroid rodent genus Delomys with remarks on “thomasomyine” characters. Am Mus Novit. 3073:2–44.
  • Voss RS. 2015a. Genus Delomys Thomas, 1917. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 79–83.
  • Voss RS. 2015b. Genus Pseudoryzomys Hershkovitz, 1962. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 443–445.
  • Voss RS, Myers P. 1991. Pseudoryzomys simplex (Rodentia: muridae) and the significance of Lund’s collections from the caves of Lagoa Santa, Brazil. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist. 206:414–432.
  • Weksler M, Bonvicino CR. 2005. Taxonomy of pigmy rice rats genus Oligoryzomys Bangs, 1900 (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) of the Brazilian Cerrado, with the description of two new species. Arq Mus Nac. 63(1):113–130.
  • Weksler M, Bonvicino CR. 2015. Genus Oligoryzomys Bangs, 1900. In: Patton JL, Pardiñas UFJ, D’Elía G, editors. Mammals of South America (Vol. 2). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; p. 417–437.
  • Wildner W, Lopes RC, organizers. 2010. Evolução Geológica: do Paleoproterozoico ao recente. In: Viero AC, Silva DRA, editors. Geodiversidade do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre: CPRM; p. 15–34.
  • Winge H. 1887. Jordfundne og nulevende Gnavere (Rodentia) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien. Copenhagen: E Museo Lundii.
  • Woinarski JCZ, Brock C, Armstrong M, Hempel C, Cheal D, Brennan K. 2000. Bird distribution in riparian vegetation in the extensive natural landscape of Australia’s tropical savanna: a broad-scale survey and analysis of a distributional data base. J Biogeogr. 27:843–868.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.