Nicaraguan woodrat

The Nicaraguan woodrat (Neotoma chrysomelas) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Honduras and Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan woodrat

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Neotominae
Genus: Neotoma
Species:
N. chrysomelas
Binomial name
Neotoma chrysomelas
J.A. Allen, 1908

References

  1. Matson, J. & Emmons, L. (2008). "Neotoma chrysomelas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
  • 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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