Biology:Large-eared Oldfield mouse

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Short description: Species of rodent

Large-eared Oldfield mouse
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Thomasomys
Species:
T. macrotis
Binomial name
Thomasomys macrotis
Gardner & Romo, 1993

The large-eared Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys macrotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is known only from a single locality in the Andes in north central Peru (which includes Rio Abiseo National Park), in montane forest at an elevation of 3300 m.[1] It has terrestrial habits and is sympatric with T. apeco.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pacheco, V. & Vargas, J. (2020). "Thomasomys macrotis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2020: e.T136480A22366976. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136480/22366976. Retrieved 17 December 2020. 
  2. Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1182. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13000956. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1765639 entry