Melanomys Thomas 1902

The genus Melanomys comprises six species, M. caliginosus (Tomes 1860), M. chrysomelas (Goldman 1918), M. columbianus (Allen 1899), M. idoneus (Goldman 1918), M. robustulus (Thomas 1914), and M. zunigae (Sanborn 1949) . The species of the genus were found in lowland or lower montane forested habitats in Central America from Honduras to Panama, and south to north-western South America, in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and westernmost Venezuela (Musser & Carleton 2005; Hanson & Bradley 2008; Prado & Percequillo 2013; Weksler & Lóss 2015). There was cytogenetic information available only for two species, M. caliginosus and M. chrysomelas .