Oryzomys dimidiatus (Thomas, 1905)

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 : 722

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scientific name	Oryzomys dimidiatus (Thomas, 1905)
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Oryzomys dimidiatus (Thomas, 1905) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 15:586.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nicaragua, Zelaya Dept., Rio Escondido, 7 mi below Rama .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Nicaragua.

COMMENTS: Described as a species of Nectomys and included therein as incertae sedis by Hershkovitz (1944). Later designated as the type species of Micronectomys , subgenus Oryzomys , by Hershkovitz (19486), who afterwards (1970b) acknowledged the taxon as an nomen nudum (also see Pine and Wetzel, 1975:653). Morphological features resemble those of the O. couesi-palustris complex ( Hershkovitz, 1970b). Only two specimens known (see Jones and Engstrom, 1986).