Tanyuromys aphrastus

Tanyuromys aphrastus, known as the long-tailed sigmodontomys,[2] Harris's rice water rat,[1] or the long-tailed rice rat,[3] is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known from Costa Rica, Panama, and Ecuador.[1] In 2012, it was reassigned to its current genus from Sigmodontomys.[4]

Tanyuromys aphrastus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Tanyuromys
Species:
T. aphrastus
Binomial name
Tanyuromys aphrastus
Harris, 1932
Synonyms

Sigmodontomys aphrastus

References

  1. Samudio, R., Pino, J., Timm, R. and Woodman, N. 2008. Sigmodontomys aphrastus. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on November 29, 2009.
  2. Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
  3. Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven: A & C Black. ISBN 0-7136-6021-X
  4. Pine, Ronald H.; Timm, R.M.; Wecksler, M. (June 2012). "A newly recognized clade of trans-Andean Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with description of a new genus". Journal of Mammalogy. 93 (3): 851–870. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-296.1.


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