Euryoryzomys macconnelli
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| Euryoryzomys macconnelli | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Euryoryzomys |
| Species: | E. macconnelli |
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| Euryoryzomys macconnelli (Thomas, 1910) |
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Oryzomys macconnelli Thomas, 1910 |
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Euryoryzomys macconnelli, also known as MacConnell's Rice Rat[2] or MacConnell's Oryzomys,[3] is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, where it lives in lowland tropical rainforest.[1] It was formerly placed in the genus Oryzomys, as Oryzomys macconnelli,[3] but in 2006 it was reclassified as the type species of the new genus Euryoryzomys.[4]
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- Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven: A & C Black. ISBN 071366021X.
- 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
- Patton, J., Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M. and Percequillo, A. 2008. Euryoryzomys macconnelli. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 November 2009.
- Weksler, M., A. R. Percequillo, and R.S. Voss. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537:1–29.
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