Oryzomys talamancae J. A. Allen, 1891 . Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 14:193.

TYPE LOCALITY: Costa Rica, Limón Prov., Talamanca .

DISTRIBUTION: Forested lowlands of E Costa Rica, Panama, W and NC Colombia, N Venezuela, and W Ecuador.

SYNONYMS: carrikeri, magdalenae, médius, mollipilosus, panamensis, sylvaticus, villosus .

COMMENTS: Considered a junior synonym of O. capito (Hershkovitz, 1960), an opinion that led to its arrangement as a subspecies thereof (Hall, 1981; Handley, 1966a). Species status reasserted by Gardner (1983a); morphological variation, distributional limits, and synonymy clarified by Musser and Williams (1985).