Oecomys jamari

Oecomys jamari
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Oecomys
Species:
O. jamari
Binomial name
Oecomys jamari
Saldanha, Semedo, de Mendonça, Lima-Silva, Messias, Sampaio, Brandão, & Rossi, 2023

Oecomys jamari, also known as the Jamari arboreal rice rat, is a newly described species of rice rat endemic to Brazil.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Oecomys jamari (id=1006770)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.
  2. ^ Saldanha, Juliane; Semedo, Thiago Borges Fernandes; de Mendonça, Ravena Fernanda Braga; et al. (2023). "Unveiling hidden diversity of Oecomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from Brazilian Central Amazonia: description of a new species and new lineages". Systematics and Biodiversity. 21 (1): 4. Bibcode:2023SyBio..2159037S. doi:10.1080/14772000.2023.2259037.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.