Ashaninka Oldfield mouse

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Ashaninka Oldfield mouse
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Thomasomys
Species:
T. onkiro
Binomial name
Thomasomys onkiro
Luna & Pacheco, 2002

The Ashaninka Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys onkiro) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. [2] It is known only from a single locality (which includes Otishi National Park) in the Cordillera Oriental of the southern Peruvian Andes, in montane forest at an elevation of 3350 m. [1] It has terrestrial habits. [1] The common name refers to the Asháninka, the largest indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Roach, N. & Lacher, T. (2020). "Thomasomys onkiro". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2020: e.T136575A22365910. Retrieved 17 December 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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. 1183. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.