Oecomys concolor

(J. A. Wagner, 1845)

Unicolored Arboreal 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 : Oecomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Wagner, J.A. 1845. Diagnosen einiger neuen Arten von Nagern und Handflüglern. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11:145-149.

Original name as described

Hesperomys concolor

Other common names

Natterer's Oecomys · Unicolored Oecomys

Type material

NMW B482

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Flusse Curicuriari im nordwestlichen Brasilien." Interpreted by P. Hershkovitz in 1960 as "Rio Curicuriari, an affluent [= tributary] of the upper Rio Negro, entering from the right below São Gabriel [da Cachoeira], Amazonas, Brazil."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela · Brazil

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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