Rhipidomys leucodactylus (Tschudi, 1844)

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 : 744

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scientific name	Rhipidomys leucodactylus (Tschudi, 1844)
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Rhipidomys leucodactylus (Tschudi, 1844) . Fauna Peruana, 1:183.

TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern Peru; Cabrera (1961) suggested the type's origin from the upper Rio Huallaga, a restriction which should be considered by a future revisor .

DISTRIBUTION: Guianas, S Venezuela, N Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

SYNONYMS: aratayae, bovallii, equatoris, lucullus, modicus , ochrogaster , rex , sclateri.

COMMENTS: Thomas (1887b) remarked that sclateri, named from British Guiana, was the eastern counterpart of Peruvian R. leucodactylus ; Guillotin and Petter (1984) described aratayae, a subspecies of R. leucodactylus , from French Guiana.