Gerbil Leaf-eared Mouse

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Gerbil Leaf-eared Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Phyllotini
Genus: Paralomys
Thomas, 1926
Species: P. gerbillus
Binomial name
Paralomys gerbillus
(Thomas, 1900)

The Gerbil Leaf-eared Mouse (Paralomys gerbillus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Paralomys. It is found only in Peru.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Phyllotis gerbillus. 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.
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