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