Biology:Yellow-bellied climbing mouse

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Short description: Species of rodent

Yellow-bellied climbing mouse
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Rhipidomys
Species:
R. ochrogaster
Binomial name
Rhipidomys ochrogaster
J.A. Allen, 1901

The yellow-bellied climbing mouse (Rhipidomys ochrogaster) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from southeastern Peru, where it has been found in cloud forest at an elevation of 1830 m.[1] This species was long known only by the type collection until it was rediscovered in May 2010.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patterson, B.; Vivar, E.; Weksler, M.; Zeballos, H. (2019). "Rhipidomys ochrogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T19614A22374505. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T19614A22374505.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19614/22374505. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
  2. Rediscovery of Rhipidomys ochrogaster J.A. Allen, 1901 (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with a redescription of the species Zootaxa 3106: 42–59 (2011)
  • 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 ☰ Q1760985 entry