Dactylomys dactylinus (Desmarest, 1817) . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 10:57.

TYPE LOCALITY: Upper Amazon area (no locality in original description) .

DISTRIBUTION: Upper Amazon Basin in N Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and perhaps Colombia.

STATUS: Locally common.

SYNONYMS: canescens, modestus, typus.