Heteromys oresterus Harris, 1932

James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 477-486 : 481-482

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scientific name	Heteromys oresterus Harris, 1932
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Heteromys oresterus Harris, 1932 View in CoL . Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 248:4.

TYPE LOCALITY: Costa Rica, Cordillera de Talamanca, El Copey de Dota, 6,000 ft. (1,829 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Talamanca Range of Costa Rica.

COMMENTS: Hall (1981) placed oresterus in the subgenus Xylomys but Rogers (1989, 1990) presented evidence that oresterus was not closely related to nelsoni , the type species of Xylomys . Reviewed by Rogers and Rogers (1992a, Mammalian Species, 396).