Melanomys caliginosus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Melanomys caliginosus (Tomes, 1860)

Holotype: BMNH 7.1.1.128.
Type locality: “Ecuador”, stated to “doubtless Esmeraldas [Esmeraldas Province] (near sea level), Ecuador” by J. A. Allen (1913: 537).

Oryzomys phaeopus Thomas, 1894: 355
- Holotype: BMNH 59.11.1.9, adult ♂, skin and skull.
- Type locality: “Pallatanga [Chimborazo Prov.], Ecuador”.

Oryzomys phaeopus obscurior Thomas, 1894: 356
- Holotype: BMNH 73.11.5.5, adult indet., skin and skull.
- Type locality “Concordia, Medellin, [Antioquia,] Colombia”.

Tomes, R.F. 1860. Notes on a third collection of Mammalia made by Mr. Fraser in the Republic of Ecuador. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28(1):260–268. BHL
Thomas, O. 1894. Descriptions of some new Neotropical Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 14: 346–366.

English: Dusky Melanomys