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Description: Distribution of five of six species of the rodent genus Euryoryzomys in South America (the distribution of the sixth, Euryoryzomys macconnelli, overlaps extensively with that of two others) Red: Euryoryzomys nitidus yellow: Euryoryzomys legatus blue: Euryoryzomys russatus pink: Euryoryzomys lamia green: Euryoryzomys emmonsae.
Title: Euryoryzomys distribution
Credit: Own work using: BlankMap-World6.svg Musser, G.G., Carleton, M.D., Brothers, E.M. and Gardner, A.L. 1998. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys "capito". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 236:1–376. 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. ISBN 9780801882210 Patton, J.L., da Silva, M.N.F. and Malcolm, J.R. 2000. Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the evolutionary and ecological diversification of Amazonia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 244:1–306.
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