Coues's Climbing Mouse

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Coues's Climbing Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Rhipidomys Species: R. couesi
Binomial name
Rhipidomys couesi (J.A. Allen & Chapman, 1893)

Coues's Climbing Mouse (Rhipidomys couesi) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Rhipidomys couesi. 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.