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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys hammondi
Author: | Thomas, 1913. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 12: 570. | Common Name: | Hammond’s Oryzomys | Type Locality: | Ecuador, Pichincha Prov., Mindo, 4213 ft (1284 m). | Distribution: | NW Ecuador. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Described as a species of Nectomys and included therein as incertae sedis by Hershkovitz (1944). Later designated as the type species of Macruroryzomys, subgenus Oryzomys, by Hershkovitz (1948b), who afterwards (1970) acknowledged the taxon as a nomen nudum (also see Pine and Wetzel, 1975:653). Distributional limits poorly defined and affinities obscure, perhaps related to the extirpated Antillean form Megalomys (Ray, 1962). |
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