Oryzomys Baird 1858
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Oryzomys

description: <i>Oryzomys</i> Baird, 1858. Mammalia <i>in</i> Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):458. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus palustris</i> Harlan, 1837. COMMENTS: Oryzomyine. A taxonomically complex and nomenclaturally confused group whose generic definition was successively broadened by Goldman (1918), Tate (1932d, <i>e),</i> and Ellerman (1941). By the time of Cabrera (1961), the genus embraced as subgenera <i>Melanomys, Microryzomys, Nesoryzomys, Oecomys,</i> and <i>Oligoryzomys —</i> an agglomeration of taxa perhaps as evolutionarily divergent from one another and from <i>Oryzomys sensu stricto</i> as <i>Neacomys</i> and <i>Nectomys,</i> forms traditionally accorded generic status (see Carleton and Musser, 1989:52). Others have recognized all of these or various ones as genera (e.g., Thomas, 1917c; Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Gardner and Patton, 1976; Reig, 1986), as we do here; see appropriate generic accounts for taxonomic histories. Karyotypic information for many species supplied by R. J. Baker et al. (1983a), Gardner and Patton (1976), and Haiduk et al. (1979); for morphological surveys, see Carleton (1973,1980), Hooper and Musser (1964a), and Voss and Linzey (1981). Much basic alpha-revision yet required.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 719, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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