Burneo’s Oldfield mouse | |
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Adult female before she was collected on 6 October 2016 (MECN 5259) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Thomasomys |
Species: | T. burneoi
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Binomial name | |
Thomasomys burneoi Lee, Tinoco & Brito, 2022[1]
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Burneo’s Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys burneoi) is a species of sigmodontine rodent in the family Cricetidae known from Sangay National Park in the eastern Andes, central Ecuador. The species is named after Ecuadorian mammalogist Santiago F. Burneo .[1]