Published November 14, 2025
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Oryzomys couesi
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Netherlands
- 3. Asociación Ecológica Paquera, Lepanto y Cóbano, PO Box 25 - 5353, Jicaral, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
- 4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy
- 5. Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
- 6. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
Description
Oryzomys couesi (Alston, 1877)
Material examined.
Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'10"N, 085°03'28"W; 297 m alt.; 13.02.2021; direct observation.
Identification.
Small-sized rodent. The upperparts are brown to orange-brown with some blackish hair. The underside is pale, whitish. The ears are relatively small and the tail is rather long and bicolor. The feet are white dorsally (Reid and Gόmez Zamora 2022). Recorded on a few occasions in clearings within forested areas or close to buildings in the study area.
Notes
Published as part of Fonda, Federica, Vezzani, Liam, Mena Aguilar, Luis Ángel, Venegas-Elizondo, Carlos Andrés, Bolaños Brenes, Alexander, Lopez, Dayron Manuel, Romeo, Giuseppe, Sonetti, Dario & Dal Zotto, Matteo, 2025, Mammal diversity and tourism influence in an under-investigated region of Costa Rica, pp. 37-74 in ZooKeys 1260 on pages 37-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2021-02-13
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-02-13
- Scientific name authorship
- Alston
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Oryzomys
- Species
- couesi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oryzomys couesi (Alston, 1877) sec. Fonda, Vezzani, Aguilar, Venegas-Elizondo, Brenes, Lopez, Romeo, Sonetti & Zotto, 2025
References
- Reid F, Gοmez Zamora G (2022) Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, New York, 286 pp.