Big-eared Climbing Rat

Big-eared Climbing Rat Temporal range: Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Tylomyinae
Tribe:	Tylomyini
Genus:	Ototylomys Merriam, 1901
Species:	O. phyllotis
Binomial name
Ototylomys phyllotis Merriam, 1901

The Big-eared Climbing Rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Ototylomys phyllotis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.