Oreoryzomys huancabambensis
Llancachahua-Tarqui, Ruelas, Escobar, & Pacheco, 2025
Huancabamba Mountain Mouse
Distribution :
Montane cloud forests SE Ecuador, Zamora-Chinchipe province, and Peru, departments of Cajamarca and Piura, 1,520 to 2,990 m.
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Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Cricetidae |
| Subfamily | : Sigmodontinae |
| Tribe | : Oryzomyini |
| Genus | : Oreoryzomys |
Species status
Authority citation
Llancachahua-Tarqui, D., Ruelas, D., Escobar, E. and Pacheco, V.R. 2025-11-27. Introduction to the systematics of Oreoryzomys balneator (Rodentia; Cricetidae) with the description of a new species from Peruvian montane forests. Revista Peruana de Biología 32(4):e31354.
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Original name as described
Oreoryzomys huancabambensis
Other common names
Huancabamba Rice Mouse · Huancabamba Rice Rat
Type material
MUSM 55512
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Habaspite (5°5'29.67"S, 79°20'40.98"W, 2130 m a.s.l.), El Carmen de la Frontera District, Huancabamba Province, Piura Department, Peru (Figs. 1, 9)."
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Ecuador · Peru
Taxonomy notes
recently described; the distribution and taxonomic status of this species and the recently spilt O. hesperus has not been investigated together, and the two taxa may be synonyms
Taxonomy notes citation
Llancachahua-Tarqui, D., Ruelas, D., Escobar, E. and Pacheco, V.R. 2025. Introduction to the systematics of Oreoryzomys balneator (Rodentia; Cricetidae) with the description of a new species from Peruvian montane forests. Revista Peruana de Biología 32(4):e31354. doi:10.15381/rpb.v32i4.31354 · Brito, J., Vargas, R., Tinoco, N., García, R., Carrión-Olmedo, J.C., Koch, C., Wistuba, R., Nivelo-Villavicencio, C. and Pardiñas, U.F.J. 2026. Mountains of diversity: a systematic revision of the Andean rodent genus Oreoryzomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). PeerJ 14:e20515. doi:10.7717/peerj.20515
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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Names and synonyms
Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.
Total: 1 name and synonym.
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