Dusky Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Dusky Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Melanomys"
species = "M. caliginosus"
binomial = "Melanomys caliginosus"
binomial_authority = (Tomes, 1860)
synonyms = The Dusky Rice Rat ("Melanomys caliginosus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/13046/all Melanomys caliginosus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 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.