Marsh rice rat
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| Species: | O. palustris
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| Oryzomys palustris Harlan, 1837
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The Marsh Rice Rat (Oryzomys palustris) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and saline marshes.
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References
- Baillie, J. 1996. Oryzomys palustris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.
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