Yellowish Rice Rat

Yellowish Rice Rat

Taxobox
name = Yellowish Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Aegialomys"
species = "A. xantheolus"
binomial = "Aegialomys xantheolus"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1894)
synonyms = The Yellowish Rice Rat ("Aegialomys xanthaeolus"; previously "Oryzomys xanthaeolus"; the second "a" in the specific epithet is sometimes omitted) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It belongs to the genus "Aegialomys" in tribe Oryzomyini. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Though it is currently the only formally recognized mainland species of "Aegialomys", at least one other exists.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15616/all Oryzomys xantheolus] . [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.


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