Thrichomys

{{Short description|Genus of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Thrichomys apereoides no Parque Nacional da Serra da Canastra.jpg | image_caption = ''Thrichomys apereoides'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Thrichomys | authority = Trouessart, 1880 | type_species = ''Nelomys apereoides'' | type_species_authority = Lund, 1839 | range_map = Thrichomys distribution (colored).png | range_map_alt = Map showing distribution of Thrichomys species in eastern South America | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Thrichomys apereoides''<br /> ''Thrichomys fosteri''<br /> ''Thrichomys inermis''<br /> ''Thrichomys laurentius''<br /> ''Thrichomys pachyurus'' }}

'''''Thrichomys''''' is a genus of South American rodents in the family Echimyidae.<ref name = MSW3>{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400519 | pages = 1589}}</ref> It contains at least five species, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.<ref name="Braggio2004">{{Cite journal|last1=E.|first1=Braggio|last2=R.|first2=Bonvicino, C.|date=2004-04-12|title=Molecular Divergence in the Genus ''Thrichomys'' (Rodentia, Echimyidae)|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|language=en|volume=85|issue=2|pages=316–320|doi=10.1644/1545-1542(2004)085<0316:mditgt>2.0.co;2|issn=0022-2372|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Nascimento2013">{{Cite journal|last1=Nascimento|first1=Fabrícia F.|last2=Lazar|first2=Ana|last3=Menezes|first3=Albert N.|last4=Durans|first4=Andressa da Matta|last5=Moreira|first5=Jânio C.|last6=Salazar-Bravo|first6=Jorge|last7=D′Andrea|first7=Paulo S.|last8=Bonvicino|first8=Cibele R.|date=2013-04-18|title=The Role of Historical Barriers in the Diversification Processes in Open Vegetation Formations during the Miocene/Pliocene Using an Ancient Rodent Lineage as a Model|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=4|article-number=e61924|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0061924|pmid=24349576|pmc=3630152|bibcode=2013PLoSO...861924N|issn=1932-6203|doi-access=free}}</ref> They are as follows: * ''Thrichomys apereoides'' - Common punaré * ''Thrichomys fosteri'' - Foster's punaré * ''Thrichomys inermis'' - Highlands punaré * ''Thrichomys laurentius'' - Sao Lourenço punaré * ''Thrichomys pachyurus'' - Paraguayan punaré

==Phylogeny== The closest relatives of the genus ''Thrichomys'' are two clades consisting of pairs of Myocastorini genera: ''Callistomys'' (the painted tree-rat) and ''Myocastor'' (the coypu or nutria) in one clade, and ''Hoplomys'' (the armored rat) and ''Proechimys'' in the other.

{{cladogram |title=Genus-level cladogram of the Myocastorini |caption=The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters.<ref name="Galewski2005">{{Cite journal|last1= Galewski|first1= Thomas|last2= Mauffrey|first2=Jean-François|last3=Leite|first3=Yuri L. R.|last4=Patton|first4=James L.|last5=Douzery|first5=Emmanuel J. P.|year=2005|title= Ecomorphological diversification among South American spiny rats (Rodentia; Echimyidae): a phylogenetic and chronological approach|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=34|issue=3|pages=601–615|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.015|pmid= 15683932|bibcode= 2005MolPE..34..601G}}</ref><ref name="Upham2012">{{Cite journal|last1=Upham|first1=Nathan S.|last2=Patterson|first2=Bruce D.|year=2012|title=Diversification and biogeography of the Neotropical caviomorph lineage Octodontoidea (Rodentia: Hystricognathi)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume= 63|issue=2|pages= 417–429|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.020|pmid=22327013|bibcode=2012MolPE..63..417U }}</ref><ref name="Fabre2013">{{Cite journal|last1=Fabre|first1=Pierre-Henri|last2=Galewski|first2=Thomas|last3=Tilak|first3=Marie-ka|last4= Douzery|first4=Emmanuel J. P.|date=2013-03-01|title=Diversification of South American spiny rats (Echimyidae): a multigene phylogenetic approach|journal=Zoologica Scripta|language= en|volume= 42|issue=2|pages= 117–134|doi= 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00572.x|s2cid=83639441|issn=1463-6409}}</ref><ref name="Loss2014">{{Cite journal|last1=Loss|first1=Ana|last2=Moura|first2=Raquel T.|last3=Leite|first3=Yuri L. R.|date=2014|title=Unexpected phylogenetic relationships of the painted tree rat ''Callistomys pictus'' (Rodentia: Echimyidae)|url=http://www.naturezaonline.com.br/natureza/conteudo/pdf/05_LossACetal_132-136.pdf|journal=Natureza on Line|volume=12|pages=132–136|archive-date=2021-06-23|access-date=2017-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623231029/http://www.naturezaonline.com.br/natureza/conteudo/pdf/05_LossACetal_132-136.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Fabre2014">{{Cite journal|last1= Fabre|first1= Pierre-Henri|last2=Vilstrup|first2=Julia T.|last3=Raghavan|first3= Maanasa|last4=Der Sarkissian|first4=Clio|last5= Willerslev|first5=Eske|last6=Douzery|first6=Emmanuel J. P.|last7= Orlando|first7=Ludovic|date=2014-07-01|title=Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics|journal=Biology Letters|language=en|volume= 10|issue= 7|article-number=20140266|doi= 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0266|pmid= 25115033|issn= 1744-9561|pmc=4126619}}</ref><ref name="Upham2015">{{Cite book| title=Biology of caviomorph rodents: diversity and evolution| last1=Upham| first1=Nathan S.| last2=Patterson| first2=Bruce D.| url= https://www.sarem.org.ar/en/products/biology-of-caviomorph-rodents-en/ |publisher= SAREM Series A, Mammalogical Research — Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos| year=2015| location=Buenos Aires| pages=63–120| chapter=Evolution of Caviomorph rodents: a complete phylogeny and timetree for living genera| editor-last1=Vassallo| editor-first1=Aldo Ivan| editor-last2=Antenucci| editor-first2=Daniel| chapter-url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282577627}}</ref><ref name="Fabre2017">{{Cite journal|last1=Fabre|first1=Pierre-Henri|last2= Upham|first2= Nathan S.|last3=Emmons|first3=Louise H.|last4= Justy|first4= Fabienne|last5= Leite|first5=Yuri L. R.|last6=Loss|first6=Ana Carolina|last7= Orlando|first7= Ludovic|last8= Tilak|first8=Marie-Ka|last9=Patterson|first9=Bruce D.|last10= Douzery|first10= Emmanuel J. P.|date=2017-03-01|title=Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats|journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution|volume= 34|issue=3|pages= 613–633|doi=10.1093/molbev/msw261|pmid=28025278|issn=0737-4038|doi-access=free}}</ref> |align=center |clades={{Cladogram of Myocastorini genera}} }}

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Category:Thrichomys Category:Myocastorini Category:Taxa named by Édouard Louis Trouessart Category:Rodent genera