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Subgenus ORYZOMYS Baird 



palustris — group 

 Oryzomys palustris palustris (Harlan)* 



1837. Mus palustris Harlan, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 31, p. 385. 



1858. Oryzomys palustris Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. to 



Pacific, vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857) , p. 459, July 14, 1858. 

 1884. Hesperomys palustris True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , 



p. 597, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1891. Oryzomys palustris J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, 



p. 215, Apr. 17, 1891. 

 Type Locality. — "Fast Land," near Salem, Salem County, N. J. Range. — 

 Atlantic coastal areas from southern New Jersey south to northeastern Florida, 

 thence westward through southern Georgia to Gulf coast of Alabama and Mis- 

 sissippi, and north through Alabama and western Tennessee to southwestern 

 Kentucky, southern Illinois, and parts of southeastern Missouri. Vertical 

 range from sea level up along streams to about 500 feet (rarely to 1,000 feet) ; 

 zonal range mainly Lower Austral, but reaching into Upper Austral in southern 

 New Jersey, southeastern Kentucky, and southeastern Missouri (Marble Hill). 

 (See also McLaughlin and Robertson, Nat. Hist. Misc. Chicago Acad. Sci. No. 80, 

 pp. 1-2, Mar. 30, 1951.) 



Oryzomys palustris natator Chapman* 



1893. Oryzomys palustris natator Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, 

 p. 44, Mar. 17, 1893. 



Type Locality. — Gainesville, Alachua County, Fla. Range. — Central Florida, 

 north of Everglades. Zonal range, Austroriparian. 



Oryzomys palustris coloratus Bangs* 



1898. Oryzomys palustris coloratus Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 



28, p. 189, March 1898. 

 1901. Oryzomys natator floridanus Merriamf, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 



vol. 3, p. 277, July 26, 1901. (Everglade, Collier County, Fla.) 

 Type Locality. — Cape Sable, Monroe County, Fla. Range. — Tropical south- 

 ern Florida, north to Lake Okeechobee. 



Oryzomys palustris texensis J. A. Allen* 



1894. Oryzomys palustris texensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 6, p. 177, May 31, 1894. 



Type Locality. — Rockport, Aransas County, Tex. Range. — From Corpus 

 Christi Bay north and east along Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana to delta of 

 Mississippi thence north in Mississippi Valley to southeastern Missouri; general 

 range reaching southeastern Kansas, probably by way of Arkansas River Valley 

 through Oklahoma (McCurtain County, Okla.; Whitaker, Journ. Mamm., vol. 18, 

 No. 1, p. 102, Feb. 11, 1937). Vertical range in Austroriparian Zone, mainly 

 below 500 feet but extending up to about 1,000 feet in Kansas. 



Oryzomys couesi couesi (Alston) * 



1877. Hesperomys couesi Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, pt. 4, p. 756, 

 April 1877. 



