Peruvian cotton rat
Appearance
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Peruvian cotton rat | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Sigmodon |
Species: | S. peruanus
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Binomial name | |
Sigmodon peruanus J.A. Allen, 1897
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The Peruvian cotton rat (Sigmodon peruanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
References
[edit]- ^ Zeballos, H.; Vivar, E.; Tirira, D. (2016). "Sigmodon peruanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T20218A22355249. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T20218A22355249.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- 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.