Biology:Osgood's leaf-eared mouse

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Short description: Species of rodent

Osgood's leaf-eared mouse
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Phyllotis
Species:
P. osgoodi
Binomial name
Phyllotis osgoodi
Mann, 1945

Osgood's leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis osgoodi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in the Altiplano of northeastern Chile .[1] The species is named after American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood.

References

  • 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.

Wikidata ☰ Q146511 entry