Marsh Rice Rat

Marsh Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Marsh Rice Rat


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Oryzomys"
species = "O. palustris"
binomial = "Oryzomys palustris"
binomial_authority = Harlan, 1837

The Marsh Rice Rat ("Oryzomys palustris") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and saline marshes.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/42675/all Oryzomys palustris] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 July 2007.

*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.


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