Brazilian Rice Rat

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Brazilian Rice Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Oryzomys
Species: O. laticeps
Binomial name
Oryzomys laticeps
(Lund, 1841)
Synonyms

oniscus Thomas, 1904

The Brazilian Rice Rat, Oryzomys laticeps, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Oryzomys oniscus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • Infonatura
  • 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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