''Oecomys concolor'', also known as the unicolored oecomys,
[Musser and Carleton, 2005] unicolored rice rat,
[ or unicolored arboreal rice rat,][ is a species 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 n ...
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
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. It is found in tropical rainforest
Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as ''lowland equa ...
in the Amazon biome, but its range is poorly documented; it has been recorded in northwestern Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, southeastern Colombia, and southern Venezuela
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.[Carleton et al., 2009, fig. 6]
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.
*Costa, L., Percequillo, A., Weksler, M., Langguth, A., Patton, J. and Catzeflis, F. 2008. . In IUCN. ''IUCN Red List of Threatened Species''. Version 2009.2.
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*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.
Oecomys
Mammals of Colombia
Fauna of the Amazon
Mammals described in 1845
Taxa named by Johann Andreas Wagner
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