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--> FAMILY Cricetidae
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--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys keaysi
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1900. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 225. | Common Name: | Keays’s Oryzomys | Type Locality: | Perú, Puno Dept., valley of upper Río Inambari, Inca Mines (= Santo Domingo), 6000 ft (1830 m). | Distribution: | Montane rainforest of E Peruvian Andes. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | A subspecies of O. albigularis sensu Cabrera (1961). Genetically divergent from O. albigularis and O. levipes; contiguously allopatric to the latter (see Patton et al., 1990). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
obtusirostris J. A. Allen, 1900
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