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The cinnamon-colored Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys cinnameus''), also called the "cinnamon-colored Thomasomys", is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is present in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes from north central Ecuador to southern
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
, at elevations from . It has terrestrial habits, and has been found in
cloud forest A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...
and mossy areas. It was formerly considered a subspecies of '' T. gracilis''.


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Mammals of Ecuador Mammals of Colombia Thomasomys Mammals described in 1924 {{Thomasomys-stub