Andean Long-Clawed Mouse

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Andean Long-clawed Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Chelemys Species: C. macronyx
Binomial name
Chelemys macronyx (Thomas, 1894)

The Andean Long-clawed Mouse (Chelemys macronyx) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It it found in Argentina and Chile.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Chelemys macronyx. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.