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SPECIES Oecomys auyantepui

Author:Tate, 1939.
Citation:Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, 76: 193.
Common Name:Guianan Oecomys
Type Locality:Venezuela, Bolívar State, Mt Auyán-Tepuí, 1100m.
Distribution:SC Venezuela eastwards through the Guianas to Amapá, Brazil and southwards to Amazonas, Brazil, north of Amazon River.
Comments:Synonymized under concolor by Hershkovitz (1960) and under paricola by Musser and Carleton (1993). Morphological distinctiveness elaborated by Voss et al. (2001) and contrasted with O. paricola, its probable sister taxon.
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