Oligoryzomys destructor (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 : 717

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scientific name	Oligoryzomys destructor (Tschudi, 1844)
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Oligoryzomys destructor (Tschudi, 1844) . Fauna Peruana, 1:182.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Peru .

DISTRIBUTION: Andes of S Colombia, through Ecuador and Peru, to WC Bolivia.

SYNONYMS: maranonicus, melanostoma, spodiurus, stolzmanni .

COMMENTS: Karyotype reported by Gardner and Patton (1976) as Oryzomys longicaudatus variant (4). As discussed by Hershkovitz (1940:81), Tschudi's specimens may have originated from haciendas along the Rio Chinchao, Huanuco Dept., Peru, 900-1000 m.