Gorgas's Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Gorgas's Rice Rat
status = CR | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Oryzomys"
species = "O. gorgasi"
binomial = "Oryzomys gorgasi"
binomial_authority = Hershkowitz, 1971
synonyms =

Gorgas's Rice Rat ("Oryzomys gorgasi") is a species of rodent in the genus "Oryzomys" of family Cricetidae. It is limited to the lowlands of northwestern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. The Curaçao Rice Rat ("Oryzomys curasoae") may be an insular representative of this species. It was named after physician and entomologist William Crawford Gorgas.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15596/all Oryzomys gorgasi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*Hershkovitz, P. 1971. A new rice rat of the "Oryzomys palustris" group (Cricetinae, Muridae) from northwestern Colombia, with remarks on distribution. Journal of Mammalogy 52(4):700-709.
*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.