Oligoryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860)

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 : 718

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scientific name	Oligoryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860)
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Oligoryzomys fulvescens (Saussure, 1860) . Revue Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 12: 102.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Veracruz, Orizaba (as restricted by Merriam, 1901:295) .

DISTRIBUTION: W and E versants of S Mexico, through Mesoamerica, to Ecuador, northernmost Brazil, and Guianas in South America.

SYNONYMS: costaricensis , creper , delicatus, engraciae, lenis, mayensis , messorius , munchiquensis, navus , nicaraguae , pacificus , reventazoni, tenuipes .

COMMENTS: All Central American forms retained as subspecies (see Hall, 1981). Variable karyotypic descriptions intimate that more than one species occurs among the listed synonyms ( Gardner and Patton, 1976; Haiduk et al., 1979).