Aegialomys galapagoensis

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: Aegialomys
Species: Aegialomys galapagoensis

Aegialomys galapagoensis (Waterhouse, 1839)

• Holotype: BMNH 55.12.24.175, adult indet., skin and skull.
• Type locality: “Chatham Island [Isla San Cristóbal], Galapagos Archipelago, Pacific Ocean,” Ecuador (00°50’S, 89°26’W”).

• Mus galapagoensis Waterhouse, 1839: 66 [original combination]
• Hesperomys galapagoensis: Wagner, 1843: 517 [name combination]
• Oryzomys galapagoensis: Thomas, 1894: 354 [name combination]
• Aegialomys galapagoensis: Weksler, Percequillo & Voss, 2006: 5 [name combination]

• Oryzomys bauri: J. A. Allen, 1892: 48 [synonymised by Patton & Hafner, 1983]
  • Holotype: lost. Neotype: MVZ 145379, adult female, skin, skull and tissue in ethanol. [designated by Prado & Percequillo, 2016]
  • Type locality: “Barrington Cove, Isla Barrington” emmended to “Barrington Cove, Barrington Island [= Isla Santa Fé], Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador; geographical coordinates 00°49’S, 90°04’W” by Prado & Percequillo, 2016.

• Waterhouse, G.R. 1838–1839. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Part II: Mammalia. Smith, Elder & Co.: London. 97 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Thomas, O. 1894. Descriptions of some new Neotropical Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 6 14: 346–366.
• Allen, J.A. 1892. On a small collection of mammals from the Galapagos Islands, collected by Dr. G. Baur. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 4: 47–50.
• Patton, J.L. & Haffner, M.S. 1983. Biosystematics of the native rodents of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Pp 539–568 In Bowman, R.I., Benson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (ed.). Patterns of evolution in Galapagos organisms. San Francisco: Pacific Division American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Weksler, M., Percequillo & Voss, R.S. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537: 1–29. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5815 Reference page. 
• Prado, J.R.D. & Percequillo, A.R. 2016. Systematic studies of the genus Aegialomys Weksler, Percequillo and Voss, 2006 (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Annotated catalogue of the types of the species-group taxa. Zootaxa 4144(4): 477–498. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.4.2. Reference page. 

• Percequillo, A.R. 2015. Genus Aegialomys Weksler, Percequillo, and Voss, 2006. Pp. 293-298 in Patton, J.L., Pardiñas, U.F.J. & D’Elía, G. (eds.). Mammals of South America. Volume 2. Rodents. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-16957-6. Reference page. 

• IUCN: Aegialomys galapagoensis  (Vulnerable)