Microryzomys minutus (Tomes, 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 : 708

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scientific name	Microryzomys minutus (Tomes, 1860)
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Microryzomys minutus (Tomes, 1860) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860:215.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Chimborazo Prov., probably near Pallatanga .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forest from N Venezuela, through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, to WC Bolivia.

SYNONYMS: aurillus, dryas , fulvirostris, humilior.

COMMENTS: Formerly included altissimus as a subspecies by Osgood (1933a), who also treated aurillus, humilior, and fulvirostris as subspecies. No races were deemed diagnosable by Carleton and Musser (1989).