Oryzomys delicatus J. A. Allen and Chapman, 1897 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9: 19.

REVIEWED BY: R. H. Pine (RHP).

TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad, Caparo .

DISTRIBUTION: N.C. Brazil; Surinam; Guyana; Trinidad; Venezuela; N.E. Colombia.

COMMENT: Includes microtis (see Pine, 1973, Acta Amazonica, 3(2): 63), navus and messorius; subgenus Oligoryzomys (see Husson, 1978:398). Cabrera, 1961:388-389, included tenuipes in this species and included delicatus in subgenus Oryzomys . The relationship of delicatus and tenuipes to fornesi and flavescens needs further investigation; see Myers and Carleton, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 161:36.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008035022001 as O. delicatus .

5301410008035042001 as O. microtis.