Biology:Mindomys

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Short description: Genus of mammals

Mindomys
Mindomys kutuku (10.3897-evolsyst.6.76879) Figure 7.jpg
Kutukú rat (Mindomys kutuku)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: Mindomys
Weksler, Percequillo & Voss, 2006[1]
Type species
Mindomys hammondi
(Thomas, 1913)
Species

Mindomys is a genus of sigmodontine rodents in the family Cricetidae. It includes two species known only from Ecuador, Hammond's rice rat (Mindomys hammondi) and the Kutukú rat (Mindomys kutuku).[1]:16[2]

See also

  • List of mammals of Ecuador

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A.R.; Voss, R.S. (2006). "Ten New Genera of Oryzomyine Rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)". American Museum Novitates (3537): 1–29. 
  2. Brito, J.; Koch, C.; Tinoco, N.; Pardiñas, U.F.J. (2022). "A new species of Mindomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae) with remarks on external traits as indicators of arboreality in sigmodontine rodents". Evolutionary Systematics 6 (1): 35–55. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.6.76879. 

Wikidata ☰ Q16895937 entry