Eremoryzomys mesocaudis

Uturunco & Pacheco, 2016

Medium-tailed Rice Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Cricetidae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Tribe : Oryzomyini
Genus : Eremoryzomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Uturunco, A.C.J. and Pacheco, V.R. 2016. Redescripción de _Eremoryzomys polius_ (Rodentia: Cricetidae) y descripción de una nueva especie del género Eremoryzomys. Mastozoología Neotropical 23:483-503.

Original name as described

Eremoryzomys mesocaudis

Type material

MUSM 41463

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Copallín, Bagua, Amazonas, Peru.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Uturunco, AC, & Pacheco, VR (2016). Redescription of Eremoryzomys polius (Rodentia: Cricetidae) and description of a new species of the genus Eremoryzomys. Neotropical Mastozoology , 23 (2), 483-503.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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