Noronhomys

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Noronhomys Fossil range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Sigmodontinae Tribe: Oryzomyini Genus: Noronhomys Carleton and Olson, 1999
Species
† Noronhomys vespuccii

Noronhomys is an extinct genus of rodent in the Cricetidae family. Similarly to the fellow Oryzomyini genus Amphinectomys it contains only one species, which is individual enough in location and characteristics to warrant its own genus.

• Vespucci's Rodent † (Noronhomys vespuccii)

[edit] References

• Carleton, Michael D., Olson, Storrs L.; Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha : a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae, Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil's continental shelf. American Museum novitates ; no. 3256