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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Sigmodontomys
SPECIES Sigmodontomys alfari
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1897. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9: 39. | Common Name: | Short-tailed Sigmodontomys | Type Locality: | Costa Rica, Limón Prov., 3 mi (5 km) E Guápiles, Jiménez, 700 ft (213 m). | Distribution: | Lowland forest from E Honduras to Panamá; C and W Colombia to NW Venezuela and NW Ecuador (see Musser et al., 1998:Fig. 51). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Karyotype reported by Gardner and Patton (1976). Musser et al. (1998) summarized locality records and compared them with other oryzomyines having trans-Andean distributions. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
barbacoas (J. A. Allen, 1916) efficax Goldman, 1913 esmeraldarum Thomas, 1901 ochraceus (J. A. Allen, 1908) ochrinus (Thomas, 1921) russulus (Thomas, 1897)
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