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--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys talamancae
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1891. | Citation: | Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 14: 193. | Common Name: | Transandean Oryzomys | Type Locality: | Costa Rica, Limón Prov., Talamanca. | Distribution: | Forested lowlands, sea level to 1525 m, from NW Costa Rica, through Panamá, to W and NC Colombia, W Ecuador, and N Venezuela (see Musser et al., 1998:Fig. 66). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Considered a junior synonym of O. capito (= O. megacephalus) (Hershkovitz, 1960), an opinion that led to its arrangement as a subspecies thereof (Hall, 1981; Handley, 1966a). Species status maintained by Gardner (1983a) and reasserted based on G-banding comparisons with capito (= O. megacephalus) by Pérez-Zapata and Aguilera (1996). Morphological recognition, distributional limits, karyotypic variation, and synonymies amplified by Musser and Williams (1985) and Musser et al. (1998). |
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carrikeri J. A. Allen, 1908 magdalenae J. A. Allen, 1899 medius Robinson and Lyon, 1901 mollipilosus J. A. Allen, 1899 panamensis Thomas, 1901 sylvaticus Thomas, 1900 villosus J. A. Allen, 1899
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