Nephelomys auriventer

(O. Thomas, 1899)

Greater Golden-bellied Rice Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Oryzomyini
Genus : Nephelomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1899-11-01. Descriptions of new rodents from the Orinoco and Ecuador. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)4(23):378-383.

Original name as described

Oryzomys auriventer

Other common names

Ecuadorean Rice Rat · Golden-bellied Oryzomys · Greater Golden-bellied Nephelomys

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1899.9.9.25

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Mirador, below Baños, on the Upper Pastaza River, [Tungurahua,] E. Ecuador. Altitude 1500 m."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Ecuador · Peru

Taxonomy notes

previously included N. nimbosus; moved from Oryzomys to the recently described Nephelomys

Taxonomy notes citation

Weksler, M., Percequillo, A.R., Voss, R.S. 2006. Ten new genera of Oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates no. 3537. pp 1-29.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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