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

description: <i>Oryzomys couesi</i> (Alston, 1877). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:756 [1877]. TYPE LOCALITY: Guatemala, Alta Verapaz Dept., Coban. DISTRIBUTION: Extreme S Texas, USA; Mexico, excluding NC plateau region, south through most of Central America, to NW Colombia (see Hershkovitz, 1987a); including Jamaica and Isla Cozumel. SYNONYMS: <i>albiventer, antillarum, apatelius, aquaticus, aztecus, azuerensis, bulleri, cozumelae, crinitus, fulgens, gatunensis, goldmani, jalapae, Iambi, mexicanus, peninsulae, peragrus, pinicola, regillus, richardsoni, richmondi, rufinus, rufus, teapensis, zygomaticus.</i> COMMENTS: Retained as a species by Goldman (1918) until Hall (1960) considered it only subspecifically distinct from <i>O. palustris.</i> Benson and Gehlbach (1979) returned <i>O. couesi</i> to specific status based on morphological contrasts with <i>O. p. texensis</i> in supposed area of intergradation. Karyotype reported by Benson and Gehlbach (1979) and Haiduk et al. (1979); morphometric comparisons to <i>O. palustris</i> by Humphrey and Setzer (1989). Following Hall's (1960) example, other insular or localized subspecies—namely, <i>antillarum, azuerensis, cozumelae, fulgens, gatunensis,</i> and <i>peninsulae</i> (see Handley, 1966a; Hershkovitz, 1971; Jones and Lawlor, 1965)—were swept under O. <i>palustris</i> <i>.</i> They are here included in <i>O. couesi</i> because of geographic proximity, but their placement, together with other Central American populations referred to O. <i>couesi</i> <i>,</i> should be critically reviewed.
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 721, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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