South American Spiny Mouse

South American Spiny Mouse

Taxobox
name = South American Spiny Mouse
status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Scolomys"
species = "S. melanops"
binomial = "Scolomys melanops"
binomial_authority = Anthony, 1924
synonyms =
The South American Spiny Mouse ("Scolomys melanops") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found only in Ecuador.

References

* Contreras, L. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20036/all Scolomys melanops] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 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.


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