Highland Small Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Highland Small Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Microryzomys"
species = "M. altissimus"
binomial = "Microryzomys altissimus"
binomial_authority = (Osgood, 1933)
synonyms = The Highland Small Rice Rat ("Microryzomys altissimus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/13407/all Microryzomys altissimus] . [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.