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Mastozoología neotropical

versión impresa ISSN 0327-9383versión On-line ISSN 1666-0536

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CALDERON-CAPOTE, María C; JEREZ, Adriana; SANCHEZ PALOMINO, Pedro  y  LOPEZ-AREVALO, Hugo Fernando. Bacular morphology of seven species of high andean rodents from Colombia (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Mastozool. neotrop. [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.1, pp.25-37. ISSN 0327-9383.

We describe and compare the bacular morphology of the high Andean rodents Thomasomys laniger, T. niveipes, T. princeps, Chilomys instans, Microryzomys minutus and Neomicroxus bogotensis distributed in Chingaza National Natural Park in the Colombian Cordillera Oriental. We also describe the baculum of Thomasomys aureus from two localities from the Cordillera Central. Our analyses used 16 penises from adult specimens, which were cleared and double stained with alizarin and alcian blue. Each of the seven species exhibited a tridigitate complex-penis with clear bacular morphological differences among them. Within the genus Thomasomys, bacula of T. aureus and T. princeps were substantially different, especially in the size and the shape of the base. Likewise, T. laniger showed marked differences in comparison to T. niveipes, contrasting with the latter by an expanded head and digits of the trident of similar size. The baculum of C. instans was similar to those of Thomasomys, with its wide base and distally expanded head. Both M. minutus together with N. bogotensis had the smallest bacula studied. The baculum of M. minutus has a wide and flat base and that of N. bogotensis is slender with a narrow and shallow base; neither set of attributes was seen in the other species analyzed. The differences found within these species led us to conclude that bacular morphology holds great potential to understand both taxonomic boundaries as well as evolutionary trends among sigmodontine rodents.

Palabras clave : Bacular morphology; Chilomys; Microryzomys; Neomicroxus; Thomasomys.

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