Sigmodontine rats are one of the most diverse components of the Neotropical mammal
fauna. They exhibit a wide ecological diversity and a variety of locomotor types that allow …

The developmental stability of an organism is reflected in its ability to produce an 'ideal'form
under a particular set of conditions. Bilateral structures in bilaterally symmetrical organisms …

Rhagomys is a genus of South American cricetids composed of three living species. They
occur in eastern Andean and lowland tropical forests. Since description of this genus more …

The central tenet of ecomorphological theory holds that there is a correlation between
design (morphological traits) and ecology of organisms. The sigmodontine rodents …

Sigmodontinae rodents constitute the second‐largest subfamily among mammals.
Alongside the taxonomic diversity, they are also ecologically diverse, exhibiting a wide array …

Juliomys pictipes, the type species of this sylvan cricetid genus, remains poorly known. In
Argentina, country where the type locality is placed, it is only known from the holotype. Here …

The diversity of the oryzomyine rat Mindomys (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae, Oryzomyini), is
doubled here with the description of a new species from the remote Cordillera de Kutukú …

Con el propósito de comparar una nueva población de Rhipidomys en Venezuela (Sierra
de Aroa-estado Yaracuy), se empleó morfometría geométrica en cráneos de tres especies …

Se describe el esqueleto postcraneal de dos especies de roedores sigmodontinos
Rhipidomys austrinus Thomas, 1921 y Graomys griseoflavus (Waterhouse, 1837). Se …

We investigated the relation between the footprint shape of the fore and hind feet of
sigmodontine rodents and their levels of arboreal activity. Footprint shape was obtained by …