Eastern Amazon climbing mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Rhipidomys |
Species: | R. emiliae
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Binomial name | |
Rhipidomys emiliae (
J.A. Allen, 1916)
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The eastern Amazon climbing mouse (Rhipidomys emiliae) is a rodent species from South America. [2] It is endemic to central Brazil, where it is found in the eastern fringe of the Amazon rainforest, as well as in gallery forest and tropical dry forest within the cerrado ecoregion. [1] It is often found in areas under cultivation. [1]