White-footed climbing mouse

White-footed climbing mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Rhipidomys
Species:
R. leucodactylus
Binomial name
Rhipidomys leucodactylus
Tschudi, 1844

The white-footed climbing mouse (Rhipidomys leucodactylus) is a species of South American rodent found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.[1] It is the type species of the genus and the type location was the lower eastern slopes of the Andes in central Peru.[2]

  1. ^ a b Patton, J.; Catzeflis, F.; Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A. (2008). "Rhipidomys leucodactylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  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. 1169. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.