Golden Thomasomys – Thomasomys aureus

Thomasomys aureusTomes, 1860

Accepterad namn, Mammal Species of the World 2005

"Highly differentiated morphologically from other species of Thomasomys (see Carleton, 1973; Hooper and Musser, 1964a; Voss and Linzey, 1981). Karyotype reported by Gardner and Patton (1976). Based on the Thomasomys material in the BMNH, Ellerman (1941) had recognized an aureus group, consisting of large species and also including nicefori, popayanus, and praetor; and Cabrera (1961) later consolidated most of these as subspecies within a highly variable T. aureus. The indiscriminate lumping prompted Gardner and Romo R. (1993) to refer to the populations as the ""T. aureus complex,"" which they suspected to consist of three or more valid species. Voss (2003) provided essential traits for separating T. aureus proper from T. popaynus and T. praetor (see those accounts)."

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.