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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Microryzomys
SPECIES Microryzomys minutus
| Author: | Tomes, 1860. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860: 215. | | Common Name: | Montane Colilargo | | Type Locality: | Ecuador, Chimborazo Prov., probably near Pallatanga. | | Distribution: | Lower montane to subalpine forest, mostly 2000-3500 m, from N Venezuela, through Colombia, Ecuador and Perú, to WC Bolivia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly included altissimus as a subspecies by Osgood (1933a), who also treated aurillus, humilior, and fulvirostris as subspecies. No races were deemed diagnosable by Carleton and Musser (1989). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
aurillus (Thomas, 1917)
dryas (Thomas, 1898)
fulvirostris (J. A. Allen, 1912)
humilior (Thomas, 1898)
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