| Coues's climbing mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Rhipidomys |
| Species: | R. couesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhipidomys couesi (J.A. Allen & Chapman, 1893)
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Coues's climbing mouse (Rhipidomys couesi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.[1] It is named in honour of the American zoologist Elliott Coues who studied birds and small mammals.
- ^ a b Aguilera, M.; Ochoa, J. (2016). "Rhipidomys couesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T19607A22373900. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T19607A22373900.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ 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. 1168. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.