Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Sigmodon peruanus J. A. Allen, 1897 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:118 . TYPE LOCALITY: Peru , La Libertad Dept., Trujillo, 200 ft . DISTRIBUTION: Pacific coastal plain and contiguous Andean foothills of W Ecuador and NW Peru . SYNONYMS: chonensis , lonnbergi, puna, simonsi. COMMENTS: Lumped under S. hispidus by Cabrera (1961) following the footnoted opinion of Hershkovitz (1955a) ; reinstated as a species by Voss (1992) .