Panamanian climbing rat
The Panamanian climbing rat (Tylomys panamensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Panama.
| Panamanian climbing rat | |
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| Tylomys panamensis (below) and Oryzomys couesi (above).[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Tylomys |
| Species: | T. panamensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tylomys panamensis (Gray, 1873) | |
References
- Alston, 1882, plate 15
Literature cited
- Alston, E. R. 1882. Biologia centrali-americana. Mammalia. R.H. Porter, 220 pp.
- Reid, R. & Woodman, N. 2008. Tylomys panamensis. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 February 2009.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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