Nesoryzomys fernandinae

Nesoryzomys fernandinae
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Nesoryzomys
Species:	N. fernandinae
Binomial name
Nesoryzomys fernandinae Hutterer and Hirsch, 1979

Nesoryzomys fernandinae, also known as the Fernandina nesoryzomys,^[2] Fernandina rice rat,^[1] or Fernandina Galápagos mouse,^[3] is a species of rodent in the genus Nesoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found only on Fernandina in the Galápagos Islands (part of Ecuador), which it shares with N. indefessus narboroughi. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.^[1] The conservation status of this endemic species continues to be investigated.^[4]

References

1. Tirira et al., 2008
2. Musser and Carleton, 2005
3. Duff and Lawson, 2004
4. http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/media/pdf/44/NG_44_1986_Trillmich_Future_of_the_Fernandina.pdf

Literature cited

• Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A checklist. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 312 pp. ISBN 0-7136-6021-X
• Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
• Tirira, D., Dowler, R., Boada, C. and Weksler, M. 2008. Nesoryzomys fernandinae. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on December 8, 2009.