Atlantic Forest Oecomys

Atlantic Forest Oecomys

Taxobox | name = Atlantic Forest Oecomys
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Oecomys"
species = "O. catherinae"
binomial = "Oecomys catherinae"
binomial_authority = Tomes, 1860

The Atlantic Forest Oecomys ("Oecomys catherinae"), is a rodent species from Brazil. It is a member of the extended "Oecomys trinitatis" family but larger and with a thicker pelt than "O. trinitatis" itself.

References

*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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