Oryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 440

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scientific name	Oryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860)
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Oryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860) View in CoL . Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 12: 102.

REVIEWED BY: G. Urbano-V. (GUV).

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Veracruz, Orizaba .

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela to Panama to Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Nayarit ( Mexico).

COMMENT: Subgenus Oligoryzomys ; see Gardner and Patton, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. St. Univ., 49:19, 24, and Hall, 1981:620, who considered fulvescens a distinct species. Cabrera, 1961:380, included Oligoryzomys in subgenus Oryzomys . Possibly conspecific with nigripes ; see Hershkovitz, 1966, Z. Saugetierk., 31: 137. Handley, 1976, Brigham Young Univ. Sci. Bull. Biol. Ser., 20(5):48, gave the distribution in Venezuela. Haiduk et al., 1980, J. Mammal., 60:610-614, reviewed the karyology of this species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008035028001.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Cricetidae
Genus	Oryzomys