''Oecomys cleberi'', also known as Cleber's oecomysMusser and Carleton, 2005 or Cleber's arboreal rice rat, is a species of

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in the genus ''

Oecomys ''Oecomys'' is a genus of rodent within the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. It contains about 17 species, which live in trees and are distributed across forested parts of South America, extending into Panama and Trinidad Trinidad i ...

'' 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 ...

. Known only from the

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, its

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status relative to '' O. concolor'' and '' O. paricola'' is unresolved.

References

Literature cited

*Costa, L., Bonvicino, C., Weksler, M. and Paglia, A. 2008. . In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2.
www.iucnredlist.org
. Downloaded on November 30, 2009. *Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. Mammals of Brazil Oecomys Mammals described in 1981 {{Oecomys-stub