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GENUS Rhagomys

Author:Thomas, 1917.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 20: 192.
Type Species:Hesperomys rufescens Thomas, 1886.
Comments:Generic affinities uncertain: originally allied with Oryzomys-Oecomys (Thomas, 1917c), or included among oryzomyine genera (Tate, 1932f), or listed as Sigmodontinae incertae sedis (McKenna and Bell, 1997; Reig, 1980, 1984; Smith and Patton, 1999). Taxonomic history reviewed and genus critically recharacterized by Luna and Patterson (2003), who considered the biogeographic implications of a new Rhagomys in SE Peru, far away from the Atlantic Forest region where its congenor and other oryzomyine-thomasomyine endemic genera are found.
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SPECIES longilingua

SPECIES rufescens

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