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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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    obtusirostris J. A. Allen, 1900

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