Big-Eared Climbing Rat

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Big-eared Climbing Rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Tylomyinae
Tribe: Tylomyini
Genus: Ototylomys
Merriam, 1901
Species: O. phyllotis
Binomial name
Ototylomys phyllotis
Merriam, 1901

The Big-eared Climbing Rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Ototylomys phyllotis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.
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