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unusual facts about Oryzomys



Catacamas virus

Catacamas virus is a single-stranded, enveloped novel RNA virus species in the hantavirus genus of the Bunyaviridae family isolated in Oryzomys couesi near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras.

Marsh rat

Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), from southeastern North America.

Oryzomys albiventer

 albiventer is part of the genus Oryzomys, which currently includes about eight species distributed from the eastern United States (O. palustris) into northwestern South America (O. gorgasi).

Oryzomys dimidiatus

Oryzomys dimidiatus is known from three specimens collected in the lowlands of the Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur in southeastern Nicaragua.


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