Sowbug rice rat
| Sowbug rice rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Hylaeamys |
| Species: | H. oniscus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hylaeamys oniscus (Thomas, 1904) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oryzomys oniscus Thomas, 1904 | |
The sowbug rice rat (Hylaeamys oniscus), [1] is a rodent species in the genus Hylaeamys of family Cricetidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Oryzomys as Oryzomys oniscus.
It occurs only in northeastern Brazil. It is close to Hylaeamys laticeps, which occurs further south in Brazil, and the two have been considered to be the same species.
References
Literature cited
- Percequillo, A. and Langguth, A. 2008. Hylaeamys oniscus. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. . Viewed on October 31, 2009.
- Weksler, M., A. R. Percequillo, and R.S. Voss. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537:1–29.
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