Pygmy rice rat

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Pygmy Rice Rat Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Oligoryzomys Bangs, 1900
Species
Oligoryzomys andinus Oligoryzomys arenalis Oligoryzomys brendae Oligoryzomys chacoensis Oligoryzomys delticola Oligoryzomys destructor Oligoryzomys eliurus Oligoryzomys flavescens Oligoryzomys fornesi Oligoryzomys fulvescens Oligoryzomys griseolus Oligoryzomys longicaudatus Oligoryzomys magellanicus Oligoryzomys microtis Oligoryzomys moojeni Oligoryzomys nigripes Oligoryzomys rupestris Oligoryzomys stramineus Oligoryzomys vegetus Oligoryzomys victus

The pygmy Rice Rats form a genus (Oligoryzomys) of rice rats.

In Argentina and Chile the long-tailed rice rat, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, and other species of the genus Oligoryzomys represent the reservoir for the Hantavirus strain Andes virus (ANDV) (Wells et al., 1997; Levis et al., 1998; Cantoni et al., 2001).