Eastern Amazon climbing mouse

Eastern Amazon climbing mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Rhipidomys
Species:	R. emiliae
Binomial name
Rhipidomys emiliae (J.A. Allen, 1916)

The eastern Amazon climbing mouse (Rhipidomys emiliae) is a rodent species from South America.^[2] It is endemic to central Brazil, where it is found in the eastern fringe of the Amazon rainforest, as well as in gallery forest and tropical dry forest within the cerrado ecoregion.^[1] It is often found in areas under cultivation.^[1]

References

1. Catzeflis, F. (2016). "Rhipidomys emiliae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136195A22374589. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136195A22374589.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1168. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.