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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oecomys
SPECIES Oecomys bicolor
Author: | Tomes, 1860. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860: 217. | Common Name: | White-bellied Oecomys | Type Locality: | Ecuador, Morona-Santiago Prov., Gualaquiza, Río Gualaquiza, 885 m. | Distribution: | E Panamá to W Colombia and Ecuador; Venezuela, Guianas, N and C Brazil; Amazonian drainage of Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, and Colombia. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Synonymy of O. phelpsi Tate attributed by Musser and Patton (1989). A morphologically and genetically distinct member of the bicolor complex, species identity uncertain, was collected at localities nearby those of O. bicolor proper in the Rio Juruá basin, W Brazil (Patton et al., 2000). |
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benevolens (Thomas, 1901) dryas (Thomas, 1900) endersi Goldman, 1933 florenciae J. A. Allen, 1916 milleri J. A. Allen, 1916 nitedulus Thomas, 1910 occidentalis (Hershkovitz, 1960) phelpsi Tate, 1939 rosilla (Thomas, 1904) trabeatus G. M. Allen and Barbour, 1923
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