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Pygmy rice rat

Pygmy Rice Rat
Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Oligoryzomys
Bangs, 1900
Species

Oligoryzomys andinus
Oligoryzomys arenalis
Oligoryzomys brendae
Oligoryzomys chacoensis
Oligoryzomys delticola
Oligoryzomys destructor
Oligoryzomys eliurus
Oligoryzomys flavescens
Oligoryzomys fornesi
Oligoryzomys fulvescens
Oligoryzomys griseolus
Oligoryzomys longicaudatus
Oligoryzomys magellanicus
Oligoryzomys microtis
Oligoryzomys moojeni
Oligoryzomys nigripes
Oligoryzomys rupestris
Oligoryzomys stramineus
Oligoryzomys vegetus
Oligoryzomys victus

The pygmy Rice Rats form a genus (Oligoryzomys) of rice rats.

In Argentina and Chile the long-tailed rice rat, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, and other species of the genus Oligoryzomys represent the reservoir for the Hantavirus strain Andes virus (ANDV) (Wells et al., 1997; Levis et al., 1998; Cantoni et al., 2001).


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