Hylaeamys laticeps

Hylaeamys laticeps
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Hylaeamys
Species:	H. laticeps
Binomial name
Hylaeamys laticeps (Lund, 1840)
Synonyms
Mus laticeps Lund, 1840 Oryzomys seuanezi Weksler et al., 1999 [Hylaeamys] laticeps: Weksler et al., 2006

Hylaeamys laticeps, also known as the Atlantic Forest oryzomys^[1] or the large-headed rice rat,^[2] is a species of rodent in the genus Hylaeamys of family Cricetidae.

The rodent is endemic to the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil.

The taxonomic history of Hylaeamys laticeps has been complex, and the name laticeps has been used for various members of the genera Cerradomys, Euryoryzomys, Transandinomys and Hylaeamys at different times. Until 2006, it was classified in the genus Oryzomys as Oryzomys laticeps. The species Oryzomys seuanezi is now a junior synonym of H. laticeps.

References

1. Musser and Carleton, 2005
2. Percequillo and Weksler, 2008

Literature cited

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Percequillo, A. & Weksler, M. (2008). Hylaeamys laticeps. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
• Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A. R.; Voss, R. S. (2006-10-19). "Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)". American Museum Novitates (New York: American Museum of Natural History) 3537: 1–29. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082. hdl:2246/5815.