Small harvest mouse

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Small harvest mouse
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Reithrodontomys
Species:
R. musseri
Binomial name
Reithrodontomys musseri
Gardner & Carleton, 2009 [2]

The small harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys musseri) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. [2] It is found in central Costa Rica. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Engelbrektsson, P. (2019). "Reithrodontomys musseri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T45959367A45973176. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T45959367A45973176.en .
  2. 1 2 Gardner, A. L.; Carleton, M. D. (2009). "A new species of Reithrodontomys, subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the highlands of Costa Rica, with comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 331: 157–182. doi:10.1206/582-5.1. hdl:10088/8670.