Melanomys caliginosus (Tomes, 1860)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 708

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scientific name	Melanomys caliginosus (Tomes, 1860)
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Melanomys caliginosus (Tomes, 1860) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860:263.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Esmeraldas Prov., Esmeraldas .

DISTRIBUTION: C American lowlands from easternmost Honduras through Panama; in South America, N and W Colombia to extreme NW Venezuela and to SW Ecuador.

SYNONYMS: affinis , buenavistae, chrysomelas , columbianus, idoneus , lomitensis, monticola , obscurior , olivinus, oroensis, phaeopus , tolimensis, vallicola.

COMMENTS: Chromosomal complement described by Gardner and Patton (1976).