Cerqueira's rice rat
Appearance
Cerqueira's rice rat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Euryoryzomys |
Species: | E. cerqueirai
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Binomial name | |
Euryoryzomys cerqueirai Percequillo & Weksler, 2023
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Cerqueira's rice rat (Euryoryzomys cerqueirai) is a newly described species of rice rat that is endemic to Brazil.[1][2]: 607
References
[edit]- ^ "Euryoryzomys cerqueriai (id=1006768)". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists.
- ^ Percequillo, A. R.; Weksler, M. (2023). "Systematics of the genus Euryoryzomys Weksler et al., 2006 (Rodentia: Cricetidae): integrative analysis reveals a new species from north-eastern Brazil". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 199 (3): 594–632. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad048.