The mamore arboreal rice rat, (''Oecomys mamorae''), also known as the Mamore oecomysMusser and Carleton, 2005 is an

arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The hab ...

species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...

in the genus ''

Oecomys ''Oecomys'' is a genus of rodent within the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. It contains about 17 species, which live in trees and are distributed across forested parts of South America, extending into Panama and Trinidad Trinidad is ...

'' of family

Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At over 870 species, it is either the largest or second-largest family ...

. Its distribution extends over much of

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and into nearby

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and

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. Although ''Oecomys'' has been recorded from

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, it is uncertain whether those records represent ''O. mamorae''. It is found in a variety of habitats at elevations from 200 to 2100 m, where it feeds on fruit and green seeds.

References

Literature cited

*Carleton, M.D., Emmons, L.H. and Musser, G.G. 2009
A new species of the rodent genus ''Oecomys'' (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) from eastern Bolivia, with emended definitions of ''O. concolor'' (Wagner) and ''O. mamorae'' (Thomas)
''American Museum Novitates'' 3661:1–32. *Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Pardinas, U., Patterson, B. and Teta, P. 2008. . In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2.
www.iucnredlist.org
. Downloaded on November 30, 2009. *Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. Oecomys Mammals described in 1906 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{Oecomys-stub