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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Oryzomys
SPECIES Oryzomys rostratus
| Author: | Merriam, 1901. | | Citation: | Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3: 293. | | Common Name: | Long-nosed Oryzomys | | Type Locality: | México, Puebla State, Metlaltoyuca. | | Distribution: | Deciduous and evergreen tropical forests from C Tamaulipas to Oaxaca and Yucatán Peninsula, México, through Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras (see Lee and Bradley, 1992), to S Nicaragua (see Jones and Engstrom, 1986). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly considered a subspecies of O. melanotis (Hall, 1981; Hooper, 1953), Engstrom (1984) effectively argued the specific distinctiveness of O. rostratus (also see account of O. melanotis). Homogeneity of populations assigned to O. rostratus warrants additional study. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
carrorum Lawrence, 1947
megadon Merriam, 1901
salvadorensis Felton, 1958
yucatanensis Merriam, 1901
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