Oryzomys melanotis Thomas, 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 11:404. REVIEWED BY: G. Urbano-V. (GUV). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Jalisco, Mineral San Sebastian. DISTRIBUTION: El Salvador; N. Belize and N. Honduras to Yucatan and Oaxaca to C. Tamaulipas and S. Sinaloa (Mexico). COMMENT: Includes rostratus; subgenus Oryzomys; see Hooper, 1953, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 544:8, and Hall, 1981:613. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008035040001.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 441, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031

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