- Yellowish Rice Rat
Taxobox
name = Yellowish Rice Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodent ia
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 ofrodent in theCricetidae family. It belongs to the genus "Aegialomys " in tribeOryzomyini . It is found inEcuador andPeru . 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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