Order Rodentia (Part 6) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 560 594 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353039 0-89327-235-3 7353039 Proechimys poliopus Osgood, 1914 . Field Mus . Nat. Hist. PubL, Zool. Ser., 10: 135 . TYPE LOCALITY: Venezuela , Zulia Prov. , Rio Aurare, El Panorama . DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Venezuela , between Lake Maracaibo and the Sierra de Perija; adjacent Colombia . COMMENT: Formerly included in guyannensis ; see Reig et al., 1980:291-312 , in Voronstov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague.