Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939

Oecomys auyantepui Tate 1939, 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.