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Interchange near the end of the Miocene,
about 5
million years ago.
Sigmodontines proceeded to
diversify explosively in the
formerly isolated continent...
- curioi, also
known as the Galápagos
giant rat, is an
extinct species of
sigmodontine rodent,
known only from
Santa Cruz
Island in the Galápagos Islands. It...
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exceptionally large rat, it's very big and the
largest living species of
sigmodontine rodent, with
short limbs and
powerful claws. Nonetheless, individuals...
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extinct following a
recent ****essment of the
conservation status of
Sigmodontine rodents. Its
natural habitat is ****umed to be dry savanna, but there...
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invasion of
sigmodontines preceded formation of the land
bridge by at
least several million years,
probably occurring via rafting.
Sigmodontines diversified...
- ; González, E.M.; Pardiñas, U.F.J. (2003). "Phylogenetic
analysis of
sigmodontine rodents (Muroidea), with
special reference to the
akodont genus Deltamys"...
- The
cursor gr**** mouse, or
cursorial akodont (Akodon cursor), is a
sigmodontine rodent from
South America. The
cursor gr****
mouse is a
moderately sized...
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rafting or island-hopping hog-nosed
skunks and
sigmodontine rodents. The
oryzomyine tribe of
sigmodontine rodents went on to
colonize the
Lesser Antilles...
- Franck; Ortiz,
Pablo E.; Pardiñas,
Ulyses F.J. (March 2019). "The
oldest sigmodontine rodent revisited and the age of the
first South American cricetids"....
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archipelago is also an
important site for
breeding seabirds. An
endemic sigmodontine rodent (Noronhomys vespuccii),
mentioned by
Amerigo Vespucci, is now...
