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 Oecomys flavicans (Thomas, 1894) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14:351 . TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela , Mérida , Mérida , 1600 m . DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Range and Cordillera de Mérida of N and W Venezuala, west to Sierra de Santa Marta of NE Columbia, perhaps including the Cordillera Oriental . SYNONYMS: illectus, mincae.