Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
955
1189
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Oligoryzomys microtis
J. A. Allen 1916
Oligoryzomys microtis
J. A.
Allen 1916
,
Bull. Am.
Mus
. Nat. Hist., 35: 525
.
Type Locality:
Brazil
,
Amazonas State
, north bank of lower Rio Solimões,
70 km
WSW Manaus, Manacaparú (as restricted by Voss et al., 2001:118-119).
Vernacular Names:
Small-eared Colilargo
.
Synonyms:
Oligoryzomys chaparensis
(Osgood 1916)
;
Oligoryzomys mattogrossae
(J. A.
Allen 1916
)
.
Distribution:
Amazon Basin of
Brazil
and contiguous lowlands of
Perú
,
Bolivia
, and
Paraguay
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Karyotype reported by
Gardner and Patton (1976)
as
Oryzomys longicaudatus
variant (2) for Peruvian sample; slightly different diploid and fundamental numbers documented for specimens from
Amapá
,
Brazil
(
Andrades-Miranda et al., 2001
a
). Gene sequence analyses indicate that
O. microtis
and
O. fornesi
represent separate species groups (
Myers et al., 1995
), not populations of a single species (
Carleton and Musser, 1989
; Olds and
Anderson, 1987
). With removal of
fornesi
from synonymy and fixation of the type locality, specific definition and distributional limits require amendment; also see Voss et al. (2001) for comparisons with
O. fulvescens
and comments on taxonomy.