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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Thomasomys
SPECIES Thomasomys popayanus
| Author: | J. A. Allen, 1912. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 31: 81. | | Common Name: | Popayán Thomasomys | | Type Locality: | Colombia, Cauca Dept., Cordillera Occidental, 40 mi (64 km)W Popayán, 10,340 ft (3152 m). | | Distribution: | Andes of W and C Colombia. | | Comments: | Reduced to a subspecies of T. aureus by Ellerman (1941), a synonymy repeated by others (Cabrera, 1961; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Species stature, provisionally including nicefori, argued by Voss (2003). |
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