Pittier's Crab-eating Rat

Pittier's Crab-eating Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Ichthyomys
Species: I. pittieri
Binomial name
Ichthyomys pittieri
Handley & Mondolfi, 1963

Pittier's Crab-eating Rat (Ichthyomys pittieri) is a species of semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found only in Venezuela. Its natural habitats are rivers and swamps. It is notable for having the highest chromosome number known for a mammal, 2n = 92.[3]

References

  1. ^ Aguilera, M. & Ochoa, J. (2008). "Ichthyomys pittieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/10762. Retrieved 29 October 2011. 
  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. 1120. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000671. 
  3. ^ Schmid, M.; Fernández-Badillo, A.; Feichtinger, W.; Steinlein, C.; Roman, J. I. (1988). "On the highest chromosome number in mammals". Cytogenetic and Genome Research 49 (4): 305–8. doi:10.1159/000132683. PMID 3073914.  edit