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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oecomys
SPECIES Oecomys auyantepui
| Author: | Tate, 1939. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, 76: 193. | | Common Name: | Guianan Oecomys | | Type Locality: | Venezuela, Bolívar State, Mt Auyán-Tepuí, 1100m. | | Distribution: | SC Venezuela eastwards through the Guianas to Amapá, Brazil and southwards to Amazonas, Brazil, north of Amazon River. | | Comments: | Synonymized under concolor by Hershkovitz (1960) and under paricola by Musser and Carleton (1993). Morphological distinctiveness elaborated by Voss et al. (2001) and contrasted with O. paricola, its probable sister taxon. |
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