Marsh Rice Rat

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Marsh Rice Rat

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Oryzomys
Species: O. palustris
Binomial name
Oryzomys palustris
Harlan, 1837

The Marsh Rice Rat (Oryzomys palustris) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and saline marshes.

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  • 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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