Garlepp's mouse
| Garlepp's mouse Temporal range: Recent | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Tribe: | Phyllotini |
| Genus: | Galenomys Thomas, 1916 |
| Species: | G. garleppi |
| Binomial name | |
| Galenomys garleppi (Thomas, 1898) | |
Garlepp's mouse (Galenomys garleppi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Galenomys. It is found in western Bolivia, southern Peru and possibly Chile at elevations over 3,000 m in the Altiplano.[1]
References
- 1 2 Dunnum, J., Vargas, J., Bernal, N., Pacheco, V., Zeballos, H. & Vivar, E. (2008). Galenomys garleppi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, March 09, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.