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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Melanomys
SPECIES Melanomys caliginosus
Author: | Tomes, 1860. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860: 263. | Common Name: | Dusky Melanomys | Type Locality: | Ecuador, Esmeraldas Prov., Esmeraldas. | Distribution: | Central American lowlands from easternmost Honduras through Panamá; in South America, N and W Colombia, including the Chocó (see Cadena et al., 1998), to SW Ecuador and NW Venezuela. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Chromosomal complement described by Gardner and Patton (1976). |
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affinis (J. A. Allen, 1912) buenavistae J. A. Allen, 1913 chrysomelas (J. A. Allen, 1897) columbianus (J. A. Allen, 1899) idoneus (Goldman, 1912) lomitensis J. A. Allen, 1913 monticola (J. A. Allen, 1912) obscurior (Thomas, 1894) olivinus (Thomas, 1902) oroensis J. A. Allen, 1913 phaeopus (Thomas, 1894) tolimensis J. A. Allen, 1913 vallicola J. A. Allen, 1913
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