Broad-Footed Climbing Mouse

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Broad-footed Climbing Mouse

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Rhipidomys
Species:	R. latimanus

Binomial name

Rhipidomys latimanus
(Tomes, 1860)

Synonyms

scandens Goldman, 1913

The Broad-footed Climbing Mouse (Rhipidomys latimanus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is also listed as vulnerable by the IUCN as Rhipidomys scandens. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

[edit] References

Baillie, J. 1996. Rhipidomys latimanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
Contreras, L. 1996. Rhipidomys scandens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 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.