Long-tongued arboreal mouse

Long-tongued arboreal mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Rhagomys
Species: R. longilingua
Binomial name
Rhagomys longilingua
Luna & Patterson, 2003

The long-tongued arboreal mouse, Rhagomys longilingua, is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found in a variety of habitats, including dense forest, in Bolivia and Peru at elevations from 450 to 2100 m on the eastern side of the Andes.[1] The species is at least partly arboreal.[1] It is distinguished from R. rufescens by spiny fur and the presence of beading in the interorbital region.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Dunnum, J., Vargas, J. & Patterson, B. (2008). "Rhagomys longilingua". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136521. Retrieved 4 July 2009. 
  2. ^ a b 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. 1166. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000876.