Microryzomys altissimus (Osgood, 1933)

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 altissimus (Osgood, 1933)
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Microryzomys altissimus (Osgood, 1933) . Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 20:5.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Pasco Dept., La Quinua, mountains north of Cerro de Pasco, 11,600 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: High Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

SYNONYMS: chotanus, hylaeus .

COMMENTS: Diagnosed as a subspecies of Oryzomys minutus but elevated to species by Hershkovitz (1940), who named two additional subspecies. Subspecific arrangement followed by Cabrera (1961) but none retained by Carleton and Musser (1989).