Big-headed Rice Rat

Taxobox | name = Big-headed Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Oryzomys"
species = "O. russatus"
binomial = "Oryzomys russatus"
binomial_authority = (Wagner, 1848)
synonyms ="intermedia" (Leche, 1886)
"kelloggi" Avila-Pires, 1959

The Big-headed Rice Rat, "Oryzomys russatus", is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15599/all Oryzomys intermedius] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15601/all Oryzomys kelloggi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*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.