Distribution.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Rodentia

Cricetidae

Gutiérrez

Eliécer E.

Marinho-Filho

Jader

The mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga

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Euryoryzomys

lamia

(Thomas, 1901)

Distribution.

Euryoryzomys lamia is endemic to the Cerrado, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Goiás (Prado and Percequillo 2013).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Endangered” to Euryoryzomys lamia (see Percequillo and Weksler 2008). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Endangered” (ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

Prado

Percequillo

(2013) On the geographic distribution of the genera of tribe

Oryzomyini

on South America, with some comments on the patterns of diversity and Reig’s areas of original differentiation. Arquivos de Zoologia 44: 1–124. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v44i1p1-120

Percequillo

Weksler

(2008)

Euryoryzomys

lamia

. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T15602A4890429. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T15602A4890429.en [Downloaded 15 October 2016]

ICMBio-MMA (Instituto Chico Mendes, Ministério do Meio Ambiemte) (2016) Executive summary of Brazil red book of threatened species of fauna. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade. http://www.icmbio.gov.br/portal/images/stories/comunicacao/publicacoes/publicacoes-diversas/dcom_sumario_executivo_livro_vermelho_ed_2016.pdf [Accessed on December 19th, 2016]