Oryzomys nitidus (Thomas, 1884)

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 : 724

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scientific name	Oryzomys nitidus (Thomas, 1884)
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Oryzomys nitidus (Thomas, 1884) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884:452.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Junin Dept., valley of Rio Tulumayo, 10 km S San Ramon, Amable Maria, 2000 ft (as located by Gardner and Patton, 1976:42) .

DISTRIBUTION: Lowland rain forest of E Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, and WC Brazil (Mato Grosso).

SYNONYMS: boliviae .

COMMENTS: A species formerly included in O. capito sensu Cabrera (1961) or affiliated with O. alfaroi by Hershkovitz (1966c). Gardner and Patton (1976) provided karyotypic and morphological evidence justifying the specific distinction of O. nitidus from both and listed boliviae , intermedius , and legatus as likely synonyms (see remarks under O. intermedius ).

References

Gardner, A. L., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Karyotypic variation in oryzomyine rodents (Cricetinae) with comments on chromosomal evolution in the Neotropical cricetine complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 49: 1 - 48.

Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.