Oecomys bicolor

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]

Ecology: This rodent tolerates dry and deciduous forest and tropical evergreen forest (Eisenberg and Redford 1999; Patton et al. 2000).

The species is arboreal . Its mean litter size is 4.5 young; the species becomes sexually mature at about three months (Eisenberg and Redford, 1999).[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Oecomys bicolor (Tomes)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jun-2004

This species needs taxonomic revision because it may contain several species.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Oecomys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. bicolor (Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. cleberi (Cleber's Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. concolor (Unicolored Rice Rat) · O. flavicans (Yellow Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. mamorae (Mamore Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. paricola (Brazilian Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. phaeotis (Dusky Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. rex (King Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. roberti (Robert's Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. rutilus (Red Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. speciosus (Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. superans (Foothill Arboreal Rice Rat) · O. trinitatis (Long-Furred Rice Rat)

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Further Reading

• Contents and index to volume 10, numbers 1 to 15, Zoological series / Wilfred H. Osgood. 10 1923 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923. url p. 382.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 20 2000 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 17, p. 31.
• Mammals in the Royal Natural History Museum, Stockholm, collected in Brazil and Bolivia by A.M. Olalla during 1934-1938 / Bruce D. Patterson. 66 1992 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1992. url fig. 7-8 , p. 24, p. 25, p. 37, p. 39.
• Mammals of an expedition across northern Peru, by Wilfred H. Osgood. 10 1914 Chicago, 1914. url p. 161.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 333, p. 334, p. 335.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 535.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 161, p. 382.
• Revision of the tribe Phyllotini (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), with a phylogenetic hypothesis for the Sigmodontinae / Scott J. Steppan. 80 1995 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1995. url table 5 , p. 111, p. 43.

Notes

Contributors

• Baillie, J. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Baillie, J. 1996. Oecomys bicolor. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Pino, J., Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M., Bonvicino, C., Costa, L. & Emmons, L. 2008. Oecomys bicolor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Mammal Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 109758
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-633186
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 633186
• IUCN ID: 227733
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 8289

Footnotes

1. Mean = 399.330 meters (1,310.138 feet), Standard Deviation = 914.050 based on 120 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Pino, J., Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M., Bonvicino, C., Costa, L. & Emmons, L. 2008. Oecomys bicolor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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