HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys nelsoni
Author: | Merriam, 1898. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 12: 15. | Common Name: | Nelson’s Oryzomys | Type Locality: | México, Nayarit State, María Madre Isl. | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | Status: | IUCN – Extinct; known only by the 4 specimens of the type series and presumed to be extinct (see Wilson, 1991). | Comments: | Allied to O. couesi, under which Hershkovitz (1971) listed it as a subspecies. Unquestionably a species distinct from mainland O. couesi and O. palustris as others have recognized (Goldman, 1918; Hall, 1981). See Alvarez-Castañeda and Méndez (2003, Mammalian Species, 735). |
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