Harris's Rice Water Rat

Harris's Rice Water Rat

Taxobox
name = Harris's Rice Water Rat
status = CR | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
genus = "Sigmodontomys"
species = "S. aphrastus"
binomial = "Sigmodontomys aphrastus"
binomial_authority = (Harris, 1932)
synonyms =

Harris's Rice Water Rat ("Sigmodontomys aphrastus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.It is found only in Costa Rica.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20222/all Sigmodontomys aphrastus] . [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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