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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Microryzomys
SPECIES Microryzomys altissimus
| Author: | Osgood, 1933. | | Citation: | Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 5. | | Common Name: | Páramo Colilargo | | Type Locality: | Perú, Pasco Dept., La Quinua, mountains north of Cerro de Pasco, 11,600 ft (3536 m). | | Distribution: | Subalpine and páramo formations, mostly 2500-4000 m, in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Perú. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Diagnosed as a subspecies of Oryzomys minutus but elevated to species by Hershkovitz (1940), who named two additional subspecies. Subspecific arrangement followed by Cabrera (1961) but none retained by Carleton and Musser (1989). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
chotanus Hershkovitz, 1940
hylaeus Hershkovitz, 1940
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