| Golden Oldfield mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Thomasomys |
| Species: | T. aureus
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| Binomial name | |
| Thomasomys aureus (Tomes, 1860)
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The golden Oldfield mouse or golden thomasomys (Thomasomys aureus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Both the common and genus name commemorate the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas who worked at the Natural History Museum, London and studied South American rodents.[3]
- ^ Pacheco, V. (2016). "Thomasomys aureus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T96801180A22366616. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T96801180A22366616.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1180. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Thomas, Oldfield". Who's Who. Vol. 59. A & C Black. 1907. p. 1737.