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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys polius
| Author: | Osgood, 1913. | | Citation: | Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 10: 97. | | Common Name: | Marañon Oryzomys | | Type Locality: | Perú, Amazonas Dept., mountains east of Balsas, Tambo Carrizal, 5000 ft (1524 m). | | Distribution: | NC Perú (Amazonas, Cajamarca, Piura). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Affinities obscure; compared to O. xanthaeolus by Osgood (1913). A valid and very distinctive species, all locality records so far confined to the dry lowlands of the upper Río Marañon basin, east of the N Peruvian Andes. |
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