COL·C3DF4speciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Leiuromys occasius — FIG. 3. Emmons, Fabre, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

FIG. 3. Emmons, Fabre, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Bare-tailed Armored Tree-rat

Leiuromys occasius (Thomas, 1921)

Also calledBare-tailed Tree-rat (eng)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from: South America
Also published as: Echimys occasius Thomas, 1921; Makalata occasius (Thomas, 1921); Pattonomys occasius (Thomas, 1921)

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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References

Emmons, Louise H., and Pierre-Henri Fabre. (2018). A review of the Pattonomys/Toromys clade (Rodentia: Echimyidae), with descriptions of a new Toromys species and a new genus. American Museum Novitates, No. 3894.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.