Handleyomys saturatior

Handleyomys saturatior
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Handleyomys
Species:	H. saturatior
Binomial name
Handleyomys saturatior (Merriam, 1901)
Synonyms
Oryzomys saturatior Merriam, 1901 [Handleyomys] saturatior: Weksler, Percequillo, and Voss, 2006

Handleyomys saturatior, also known as the Cloud Forest Oryzomys^[2] or Cloud Forest Rice Rat,^[1] is a species of rodent in the genus Handleyomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua in cloud forest at elevations from 750 to 2500 m.^[1] It was previously placed in the genus Oryzomys.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Reid et al., 2008
2. ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005

Literature cited

• 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.
• Reid, F., Vázquez, E., Emmons, L. & McCarthy, T. (2008). Handleyomys saturatior. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 April 2009.
• Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A. R.; Voss, R. S. (2006). "Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)". American Museum Novitates (New York: American Museum of Natural History) 3537: 1–29. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082. hdl:2246/5815.