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Necromys

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Description

Necromys is a genus of South American sigmodontine rodents allied to Akodon. This genus has also been known as Cabreramys or more recently Bolomys, and the northern grass mouse (N. urichi) has recently been transferred from Akodon.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4265134	https://www.gbif.org/species/4265134
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41744	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41744

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : Necromys

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Muridae : Necromys

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
order	Rodentia
infraorder	Myodonta	Schaub 1958
superfamily	Muroidea	Illiger 1811
-	Eumuroida	Steppan et al. 2004
family	Muridae	Illiger 1811
genus	Necromys	Ameghino 1889

Common Name

bolo mouse

Scientific Name

Necromys Ameghino, 1889

Name Published In

Actas Acad. Nac. Cienc. Córdoba vol.6 p.120

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bolomys	genus	belongs to Muridae	stated with evidence	Thomas, 1916
Bolomys	genus	belongs to Cricetidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Bolomys	genus	belongs to Sigmodontinae	stated without evidence	Salles et al., 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore, insectivore (based on Muridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. Thomas. 1916. On the South-American Muridae commonly referred to Akodon. Annals and magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology XVIII:334-340

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromys

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bolomys bonapartei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Bolomys temchuki species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Necromys amoenus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Necromys benefactus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Necromys conifer ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Necromys lactens species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Necromys lasiurus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Necromys lenguarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Necromys obscurus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Necromys punctulatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Necromys temchuki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Necromys urichi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Bolomys Thomas, 1916	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : *Bolomys*
Cabreramys Massoia & Fornes, 1967	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Cricetidae : *Cabreramys*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Bolomys Thomas p. 339
1967	Cabreramys Massoia and Fornes
1997	Bolomys McKenna and Bell
2006	Bolomys Salles et al. p. 9

References

Thomas O. (1916) On the South-American Muridae commonly referred to Akodon, Annals and magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology XVIII, 334-340

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Salles L. O., Cartelle C., et al (2006) Quaternary mammals from Serra do Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Boletim do Museu Nacional 521, 1-12

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 894-1531. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Act. Acad. Córdoba, 6 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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