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 Rhipidomys venezuelae Thomas 1896 Rhipidomys venezuelae Thomas 1896 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 303 . Type Locality: Venezuela , Mérida State , Mérida , 1630 m . Vernacular Names: Venezuelan Rhipidomys . Synonyms: Rhipidomys tobagi Goodwin 1961 . Distribution: Mountains of N and W Venezuela , including Trinidad and Tobago , and E Colombia . Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996) . This form may represent the E Andean complement of R. latimanus (see that account). The provisional association of R. nitela tobagi Goodwin , heretofore placed as a synonym of R. nitela (e.g., Musser and Carleton, 1993 ; Tribe, 1996 ), follows the observations of Voss et al. (2001).