| Red-nosed Mouse Temporal range: Recent |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Wiedomys |
| Species: | W. pyrrhorhinos |
| Binomial name | |
| Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) |
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The Red-nosed Mouse, Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos, is an arboreal rodent species from South America. It is found in caatinga and cerrado habitat in eastern Brazil.[1]