Nesoryzomys Heller, 1904 . Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 3:241.

REVIEWED BY: M. S. Boyce (MSB); R. Guenzel (RG); A. Langguth (AL); R. A. Ojeda (RAO); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP).

COMMENT: Considered a distinct genus by Gardner and Patton, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. St. Univ., 49:20, and Voss and Linzey, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 159:24. Ellerman, 1941:406, and Corbet and Hill, 1980:142, considered Nesoryzomys a subgenus of Oryzomys . Subfamily Hesperomyinae; see comment under Cricetidae .