Dusky Montane Mouse

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Dusky Montane Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Handleyomys Species: H. fuscatus
Binomial name
Handleyomys fuscatus (J.A. Allen, 1912)

The Dusky Montane Mouse (Handleyomys fuscatus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is often placed in the genus Aepeomys, but Musser and Carleton (2005), citing molecular sources, recognized it as a member of the genus Handleyomys. It is found only in Colombia.

[edit] Source

• Baillie, J. 1996. Aepeomys fuscatus. 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.