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Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939

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Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939

Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 76: 193.

Type Locality: Venezuela, Bolívar State, Mt Auyán-Tepuí, 1100m.

Vernacular Names: Guianan Oecomys.

Distribution: SC Venezuela eastwards through the Guianas to Amapá, Brazil and southwards to Amazonas, Brazil, north of Amazon River.

Discussion: Synonymized under concolor by Hershkovitz (1960) and under paricola by Musser and Carleton (1993). Morphological distinctiveness elaborated by Voss et al. (2001) and contrasted with O. paricola, its probable sister taxon.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/90FF271E8BF584BB03D860E6603BDD65

Related works

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/05F3D1847A4743C70A50558FE6B48509 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/90FF271E8BF584BB03D860E6603BDD65 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/231522262 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tate
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Oecomys
Species
auyantepui
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Oecomys auyantepui Tate, 1939 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Tate, G. H. H. 1939. The mammals of the Guiana region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76: 151 - 229.
  • Hershkovitz, P. 1960. Mammals of northern Colombia, preliminary report no. 8: Arboreal rice rats, a systematic revision of the subgenus Oecomys, genus Oryzomys. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 110: 513 - 568.
  • Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.