Oecomys speciosus

{{speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Gómez-Laverde et al., 2008

| genus = Oecomys

| species = speciosus

| authority = (J.A. Allen and Chapman, 1893)

| synonyms =

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Oecomys speciosus, also known as the savannah oecomys,Musser and Carleton, 2005 arboreal rice rat, or Venezuelan arboreal rice rat,Duff and Lawson, 2004 is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It ranges over northeastern Colombia and much of Venezuela, including the island of Trinidad. This rodent lives in tropical rainforest and tropical dry forest, including secondary forest and gallery forest, as well as in savanna habitat.

References

Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kMxjL_xRkC4C&pg=PA57 Mammals of the World: A checklist]. New Haven: Yale University Press. {{ISBN|0-7136-6021-X}}.
{{cite iucn |author=Gómez-Laverde, M.|author2=Aguilera, M.|author3=Rivas, B.|author4=Ochoa, J.|author5=Woodman, N.|author6=Emmons, L.| title = Oecomys speciosus |errata=2017| year = 2016 | page = e.T15141A115125468 | access-date = 23 December 2019}}
{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13000762 | page = 1138}}