Galapagos Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Galapagos Rice Rat
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = The extinct "Oryzomys galapagoensis galapagoensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Aegialomys"
species = "A. galapagoensis"
binomial = "Aegialomys galapagoensis"
binomial_authority = (Waterhouse, 1839)
synonyms = The Galapagos Rice Rat ("Aegialomys galapagoensis"; previously "Oryzomys galapagoensis") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It belongs to the genus "Aegialomys" in tribe Oryzomyini. It is found on the Galápagos Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The subspecies "bauri" is sometimes considered to represent a full species.

References

* Gippoliti, S. 2002. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15595/all Oryzomys galapagoensis] . [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.
*Weksler, M., A. R. Percequillo, and R.S. Voss. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537:1-29.