South American Spiny Mouse

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South American Spiny Mouse
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Scolomys Species: S. melanops
Binomial name
Scolomys melanops Anthony, 1924

The South American Spiny Mouse (Scolomys melanops) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in Ecuador.

[edit] References

• Contreras, L. 1996. Scolomys melanops. 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.