Cerrado climbing mouse

Cerrado climbing mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Rhipidomys
Species:	R. macrurus (Gervais, 1855)
Binomial name
Rhipidomys macrurus

The cerrado climbing mouse (Rhipidomys macrurus) is an arboreal rodent species in the family Cricetidae from South America. It is found in central and eastern Brazil in forests of the cerrado and caatinga, and has also been seen in the Atlantic Forest.^[1] Its karyotype is 2n = 44, FN = 48-52.^[2]

It is sometimes commonly known as the long-tailed rhipidomys. The Atlantic Forest climbing mouse (Rhipidomys mastacalis) has sometimes been similarly referred to as the "long-tailed climbing mouse". Rodents of genus Vandeleuria are also commonly known as long-tailed climbing mice.

This species should also not be confused with the cerrado mouse, Thalpomys cerradensis, the cerrado red-nosed mouse, Wiedomys cerradensis, or the cerrado grass mouse, Akodon serrensis.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M. & Percequillo, A. (2008). "Rhipidomys macrurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136422. Retrieved 14 June 2009. 
2. ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1170. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000893. 

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