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 Thomasomys aureus (Tomes, 1860) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860:219 . TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador , Chimborazo Prov. , Pallatanga, 4950 ft . DISTRIBUTION: Andean forests of NC Venezuela , C and W Colombia , Ecuador , and N Peru . SYNONYMS: altorum, nicefori , popayanus , praetor , princeps . COMMENTS: Highly differentiated morphologically from other species of Thomasomys (see Carleton, 1973 ; Hooper and Musser, 1964a ; Voss and Linzey, 1981 ). Karyotype reported by Gardner and Patton (1976) .