Large-eared oldfield mouse | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Genus: | Thomasomys |
Species: | T. macrotis |
Binomial name | |
Thomasomys macrotis Gardner & Romo, 1993 |
The large-eared oldfield mouse (Thomasomys macrotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from a single locality in the Andes in north central Peru (which includes Rio Abiseo National Park), in montane forest at an elevation of 3300 m.[1] It has terrestrial habits and is sympatric with T. apeco.[1]