''Oecomys'' is a genus of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...
within the tribe
Oryzomyini
Oryzomyini is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae of the family Cricetidae. It includes about 120 species in about thirty genera,Weksler et al., 2006, table 1 distributed from the eastern United States to the southernmost parts of S ...
of family
Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At almost 608 species, it is the second-largest family of mammals, and has m ...
.
It contains about 17 species, which live in trees and are distributed across forested parts of
South America
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, extending into
Panama
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and
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
.
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References
Literature cited
*Carleton, M.D., Emmons, L.H. and Musser, G.G. 2009
A new species of the rodent genus ''Oecomys'' (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) from eastern Bolivia, with emended definitions of ''O. concolor'' (Wagner) and ''O. mamorae'' (Thomas)
''American Museum Novitates'' 3661:1–32.
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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