Oecomys

Oecomys
Skull shown on a black background. Viewed from above on the left, with text "6" next to it; viewed from below at the right, with text "6a".
Skull of Oecomys trinitatis from Corozal, Panama.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: Oecomys
Thomas, 1906
Type species
Rhipidomys benevolens
Species

Oecomys is a genus of rodent within the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae.[3] It contains about 17 species, which live in trees and are distributed across forested parts of South America, extending into Panama and Trinidad.[3]

  1. ^ Saldanha, Juliane; Semedo, Thiago Borges Fernandes; de Mendonça, Ravena Fernanda Braga; et al. (2023). "Unveiling hidden diversity of Oecomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from Brazilian Central Amazonia: description of a new species and new lineages". Systematics and Biodiversity. 21 (1): 4. doi:10.1080/14772000.2023.2259037.
  2. ^ Carleton et al., 2009
  3. ^ a b Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.