Yellow-Bellied Climbing Mouse

Yellow-bellied Climbing Mouse
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Rhipidomys
Species:	R. ochrogaster
Binomial name
*Rhipidomys ochrogaster* J.A. Allen, 1901

The Yellow-bellied Climbing Mouse (Rhipidomys ochrogaster) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from southeastern Peru, where it has been found in cloud forest at an elevation of 1830 m.^[1] This species was long known only by the type collection until it was rediscovered in May 2010.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Zeballos, H., Vivar, E., Weksler, M. & Patterson, B. (2008). "Rhipidomys ochrogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/19614. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
^ Rediscovery of Rhipidomys ochrogaster J.A. Allen, 1901 (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with a redescription of the species Zootaxa 3106: 42–59 (2011)

Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.