Oryzomys talamancae J. A. Allen, 1891

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 725

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scientific name	Oryzomys talamancae J. A. Allen, 1891
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Oryzomys talamancae J. A. Allen, 1891 . Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 14:193.

TYPE LOCALITY: Costa Rica, Limón Prov., Talamanca .

DISTRIBUTION: Forested lowlands of E Costa Rica, Panama, W and NC Colombia, N Venezuela, and W Ecuador.

SYNONYMS: carrikeri , magdalenae , médius , mollipilosus , panamensis , sylvaticus , villosus .

COMMENTS: Considered a junior synonym of O. capito ( Hershkovitz, 1960) , an opinion that led to its arrangement as a subspecies thereof ( Hall, 1981; Handley, 1966a). Species status reasserted by Gardner (1983a); morphological variation, distributional limits, and synonymy clarified by Musser and Williams (1985).