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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys dimidiatus
| Author: | Thomas, 1905. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 15: 586. | | Common Name: | Nicaraguan Oryzomys | | Type Locality: | Nicaragua, Zelaya Dept., Río Escondido, 7 mi (11 km) below Rama. | | Distribution: | SE Nicaragua. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Described as a species of Nectomys and included therein as incertae sedis by Hershkovitz (1944). Later designated as the type species of Micronectomys, subgenus Oryzomys, by Hershkovitz (1948b), who afterwards (1970) acknowledged the taxon as a nomen nudum (also see Pine and Wetzel, 1975:653). Morphological features resemble those of the O. couesi-palustris complex (Hershkovitz, 1970), a relationship supported by Sánchez et al. (2001). Only two specimens known (see Jones and Engstrom, 1986). |
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