Zuniga's Dark Rice Rat

Zuniga's Dark Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Zuniga's Dark Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Melanomys"
species = "M. zunigae"
binomial = "Melanomys zunigae"
binomial_authority = (Sanborn, 1949)
synonyms = "Oryzomys zunigae" Sanborn, 1949The Zuniga's Dark Rice Rat ("Melanomys zunigae") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found only in Peru.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/13048/all Melanomys zunigae] . [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.


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