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 Ototylomys phyllotis Merriam, 1901 . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 3:562 . TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico , Yucatan , Tunkas . DISTRIBUTION: C Costa Rica north to Yucatan Peninsula, S Tabasco , and N Chiapas , Mexico ; isolated record from NC Guerrero , Mexico . SYNONYMS: affinis , australis , brevirostris , connectens , fumeus , guatemalae , phaeus . COMMENTS: Distribution and geographic variation examined by Lawlor (1969) , who retained australis and connectens as subspecies. See Lawlor (1982 , Mammalian Species, 181).