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Colombian Forest Mouse


Colombian Forest Mouse
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Thomasomyini
Genus: Chilomys
Thomas, 1897
Species: C. instans
Binomial name
Chilomys instans
Thomas, 1895

The Colombian Forest Mouse (Chilomys instans) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Chilomys. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Chilomys instans. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
  • 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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