Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
  
 Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
    
 Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
      
 Subfamily Hesperomyinae Murray, 1866 - New-World mice and rats
 see Subfamily Sigmodontinae Wagner, 1843
        
 Genus Oryzomys Baird, 1857 - rice rats
          
 Oryzomys altissimus
 see  Microryzomys altissimus Osgood, 1933