Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1168

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scientific name	Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893
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Rhipidomys couesi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 5: 214.

Type Locality: Trinidad, 7 mi (11 km) SE Princes Town and 12 mi (19 km) N of the southern coast.

Vernacular Names: Coues' Rhipidomys.

Synonyms: Rhipidomys cumananus Thomas 1900 .

Distribution: Moist lowland forest that follows an arc from Trinidad, through N and WC Venezuela, to C Colombia (Meta).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: R. leucodactylus section sensu Tribe (1996). Cabrera (1961) identified couesi as a subspecies of R. sclateri . As emphasized by its original describer Thomas (1887 b), sclateri closely resembles Peruvian R. leucodactylus , and, in both Venezuela (see Handley, 1976) and Perú, R. couesi and R. leucodactylus are morphologically distinct.