Oecomys bicolor
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Oecomys bicolor (Tomes 1860)
[Oecomys] bicolor (Tomes 1860), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860: 217.
Type Locality: Ecuador, Morona-Santiago Prov., Gualaquiza, Río Gualaquiza, 885 m.
Vernacular Names: White-bellied Oecomys.
Synonyms: Oecomys benevolens (Thomas 1901); Oecomys dryas (Thomas 1900); Oecomys endersi Goldman 1933; Oecomys florenciae J. A. Allen 1916; Oecomys milleri J. A. Allen 1916; Oecomys nitedulus Thomas 1910; Oecomys occidentalis (Hershkovitz 1960); Oecomys phelpsi Tate 1939; Oecomys rosilla (Thomas 1904); Oecomys trabeatus G. M. Allen and Barbour 1923.
Distribution: E Panamá to W Colombia and Ecuador; Venezuela, Guianas, N and C Brazil; Amazonian drainage of Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: 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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- Is part of
- 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/1A4A9A580374CC33DBEBBAAC839A05D2 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231522269 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tomes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Oecomys
- Species
- bicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oecomys bicolor (Tomes, 1860) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Allen, J. A. 1916. Mammals collected on the Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition, with field notes by Leo E. Miller. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 35: 559 - 610, 6 pls.
- 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.
- Tate, G. H. H. 1939. The mammals of the Guiana region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76: 151 - 229.
- Musser, G. G., and J. L. Patton. 1989. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae): The identity of Oecomys phelpsi Tate. American Museum Novitates, 2961: 6 pp.
- Patton, J. L., M. N. F. da Silva, and J. R. Malcolm. 2000. Mammals of the Rio Jurua and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 244: 1 - 306.