Mamore arboreal rice rat

The mamore arboreal rice rat,[1] (Oecomys mamorae), also known as the Mamore oecomys[3] is an arboreal species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. Its distribution extends over much of Bolivia and into nearby Brazil and Paraguay. Although Oecomys has been recorded from Argentina, it is uncertain whether those records represent O. mamorae. It is found in a variety of habitats at elevations from 200 to 2100 m, where it feeds on fruit and green seeds.[1]

Mamore arboreal rice rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Oecomys
Species:
O. mamorae
Binomial name
Oecomys mamorae
Thomas, 1906
Distribution of Oecomys mamorae (in dark blue), Argentinean populations possibly referable to O. mamorae (light blue), and related species (green, Oecomys concolor; red, Oecomys sydandersoni).[2]

References
  1. Dunnum et al., 2008
  2. Carleton et al., 2009, fig. 6, p. 26
  3. Musser and Carleton, 2005

Literature cited
  • Carleton, M.D., Emmons, L.H. and Musser, G.G. 2009. A new species of the rodent genus Oecomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) from eastern Bolivia, with emended definitions of O. concolor (Wagner) and O. mamorae (Thomas). American Museum Novitates 3661:1–32.
  • Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Pardinas, U., Patterson, B. and Teta, P. 2008. Oecomys mamorae. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on November 30, 2009.
  • Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0


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