Oryzomys alfaroi
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Description
Oryzomys alfaroi (J. A. Allen, 1891). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3:214.
TYPE LOCALITY: Costa Rica, Alajuela Prov., San Carlos.
DISTRIBUTION: Lowland to lower montane forests from S Tamaulipas and Oaxaca, Mexico, through Middle America, to W Colombia and Ecuador.
SYNONYMS: agrestis, dariensis, gloriaensis, gracilis, incertus (of J. A. Allen, 1908), intagensis, palatinus, palmirae.
COMMENTS: Goldman (1918) forged a broad definition of the species, expanded more so by Hall and Kelson (1959), which encompassed many forms previously treated as distinct (e.g., Merriam, 1901). We recognize chapmani, rhabdops, and saturatior as species (revision in progress). Oryzomys alfaroi proper may be more closely related to melanotis-rostratus than to the chapmani-saturatior group. Karyotype reported by Haiduk et al. (1979) and Engstrom (1984).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Oryzomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- J. A. Allen
- Species
- alfaroi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oryzomys alfaroi (Allen, 1891) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Allen, J. A. 1908. Mammals from Nicaragua. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 24: 647 - 670.
- Goldman, E. A. 1918. The rice rats of North America (Genus Oryzomys). North American Fauna, 43: 1 - 100.
- Hall, E. R., and K. R. Kelson. 1959. The mammals of North America. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1: 1 - 546; 2: 547 - 1083 + 79.
- Haiduk, M. W., J. W. Bickham, and D. J. Schmidly. 1979. Karyotypes of six species of Oryzomys from Mexico and Central America. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 610 - 615.
- Engstrom, M. D. 1984. Chromosomal, genic, and morphological variation in the Oryzomys melanotis species group. Unpubl. PhD. dissertation, Texas A & M University, 171 pp.