Dusky Montane Mouse

Taxobox
name = Dusky Montane Mouse
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Handleyomys"
species = "H. fuscatus"
binomial = "Handleyomys fuscatus"
binomial_authority = (J.A. Allen, 1912)
synonyms = "Aepeomys fuscatus"
"Thomasomys fuscatus"

The Dusky Montane Mouse ("Handleyomys fuscatus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is often placed in the genus "Aepeomys", but Musser and Carleton (2005), citing molecular sources, recognized it as a member of the genus "Handleyomys".It is found only in Colombia.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/547/all Aepeomys fuscatus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 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.