Eastern Amazon climbing mouse

Eastern Amazon climbing mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Rhipidomys
Species: R. emiliae
Binomial name
Rhipidomys emiliae
(J.A. Allen, 1916)

The eastern Amazon climbing mouse, Rhipidomys emiliae, is a rodent species from South America.[2] It is endemic to central Brazil, where it is found in the eastern fringe of the Amazon Rainforest, as well as in gallery forest and tropical dry forest within the cerrado ecoregion.[1] It is often found in areas under cultivation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M. & Percequillo, A. (2008). "Rhipidomys emiliae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136195. Retrieved 16 July 2009. 
  2. ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1168. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000887.