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Oecomys speciosus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Oecomys
Species:	O. speciosus
Binomial name
Oecomys speciosus (J.A. Allen and Chapman, 1893)

Oecomys speciosus, also known as the savannah oecomys, arboreal rice rat, or Venezuelan arboreal rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It ranges over northeastern Colombia and much of Venezuela, including the island of Trinidad. This rodent lives in tropical rainforest and tropical dry forest, including secondary forest and gallery forest, as well as in savanna habitat.

References

1. ^ Gómez-Laverde et al., 2008
2. Musser and Carleton, 2005
3. Duff and Lawson, 2004

Literature cited

• Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-7136-6021-X.
• Gómez-Laverde, M.; Aguilera, M.; Rivas, B.; Ochoa, J.; Woodman, N.; Emmons, L. (2017) . "Oecomys speciosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T15141A115125468. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1138. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Oecomys
• Mammals of Colombia
• Mammals of Trinidad and Tobago
• Mammals of the Caribbean
• Mammals of Venezuela
• Mammals described in 1893
• Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen
• Taxa named by Frank Chapman (ornithologist)
• Sigmodontinae stubs