Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1137

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scientific name	Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939
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Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939 View in CoL

Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939 View in CoL , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 76: 193.

Type Locality: Venezuela, Bolívar State, Mt Auyán-Tepuí, 1100m.

Vernacular Names: Guianan Oecomys.

Distribution: SC Venezuela eastwards through the Guianas to Amapá, Brazil and southwards to Amazonas, Brazil, north of Amazon River.

Discussion: Synonymized under concolor by Hershkovitz (1960) and under paricola by Musser and Carleton (1993). Morphological distinctiveness elaborated by Voss et al. (2001) and contrasted with O. paricola , its probable sister taxon.

References

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.

Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.

Tate, G. H. H. 1939. The mammals of the Guiana region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76: 151 - 229.