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
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Oryzomys hammondi
(Thomas, 1913)
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 12:570
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Ecuador
,
Pichincha Prov.
, Mindo,
4213 ft
.
DISTRIBUTION: NW
Ecuador
.
COMMENTS: Described as a species of
Nectomys
and included therein as
incertae sedis
by
Hershkovitz (1944)
. Later designated as the type species of
Macruroryzomys
,
subgenus
Oryzomys
,
by
Hershkovitz (1948b)
, who afterwards (1970b) acknowledged the taxon as a
nomen
nudum
(also see
Pine and Wetzel, 1975:653
). Distributional limits poorly definded and affinities obscure, perhaps related to the extirpated Antillean form
Megalomys
(
Ray, 1962
)
.