Talamancan Rice Rat

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Talamancan Rice Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Genus: Oryzomys Species: O. talamancae
Binomial name
Oryzomys talamancae Allen, 1891

The Talamancan Rice Rat (Oryzomys talamancae) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Oryzomys talamancae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.