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Oecomys bicolor

Description

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).

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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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.