Nectomys palmipes Allen and Chapman, 1893

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 : 709

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scientific name	Nectomys palmipes Allen and Chapman, 1893
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Nectomys palmipes Allen and Chapman, 1893 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:209.

TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad, Victoria County, Princes Town .

DISTRIBUTION: Island of Trinidad and nearby region of NE Venezuela: limits of distribution unknown.

COMMENTS: Arranged by Hershkovitz (1944) as one of many subspecies of N. squamipes . Barros et al. (1992) reinstated palmipes to species based on its inordinately low diploid number (2n=16-17) as compared to other populations of Nectomys , which range from 2n=38 to 2n=59 ( Barros et al., 1992; Gardner and Patton, 1976).