Coues's Rice Rat

Coues's Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Coues's Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
tribus = Oryzomyini
genus = "Oryzomys"
species = "O. couesi"
binomial = "Oryzomys couesi"
binomial_authority = (Alston, 1877)

Coues's Rice Rat ("Oryzomys couesi") is a species of rodent in genus "Oryzomys" distributed from extreme southern Texas through Mexico and Central America to northwestern Colombia. It was previously considered to represent the same species as the Marsh Rice Rat ("Oryzomys palustris") from the southern United States, but the two are distinctive where their ranges meet in southern Texas. The species contains several peripheral populations whose relationships are currently unclear; also, its relationships with the related Jamaican Rice Rat, Nicaraguan Rice Rat and Gorgas's Rice Rat are still unclear. Coues's Rice Rat apparently contains at least three distinct species.

The species is threatened in Texas due to habitat loss, but its IUCN conservation status is Least Concern.

References

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*Kays, R. W. and D. E. Wilson. 2000. Mammals of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford.
*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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