Melanomys caliginosus

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Melanomys caliginosus
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Skull of Melanomys caliginosus from Cerro Azul, Panama.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Melanomys
Species:
M. caliginosus
Binomial name
Melanomys caliginosus
(Tomes, 1860)

Melanomys caliginosus, also known as the dusky melanomys [2] or dusky rice rat, [1] is a species of rodent in the genus Melanomys of family Cricetidae. It is found from Central America, in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, into South America, where it occurs in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Populations currently classified under M. caliginosus may in fact include more than one species. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Anderson et al., 2008
  2. Musser and Carleton, 2005

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