Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared Mouse

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Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Phyllotis
Species: P. xanthopygus
Binomial name
Phyllotis xanthopygus
(Waterhouse, 1837)

Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared Mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Argentina and Chile.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Phyllotis xanthopygus. 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.