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The Brazilian arboreal mouse is a small mouse with small rounded ears and vibrissae (whiskers) long enough to reach the ears. The dorsal fur is reddish-brown which gradually fades to reddish-grey on the ventral surface. The hair is soft, and this distinguishes Rhagomys rufescens from the only other species in the genus, Rhagomys longilingua ...
P. ferrugineus. Binomial name. Phaenomys ferrugineus. (Thomas, 1894) The Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat (Phaenomys ferrugineus) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Phaenomys.
The long-tongued arboreal mouse (Rhagomys longilingua) is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. [2] It is found in a variety of habitats, including dense forest, in Bolivia and Peru at elevations from 450 to 2,100 metres (1,480 to 6,890 ft) on the eastern side of the Andes. [1] The species is at least partly arboreal.
C. ashaninka [1] Binomial name. Cuscomys ashaninka [1] Emmons, 1999. The Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat [2] ( Cuscomys ashaninka) is a large species of chinchilla rats from the Andes of far northern Cusco in Peru. It was first scientifically described in 1999. The first specimen of this species was discovered by Louise Emmons, a researcher ...
The Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat ( Cuscomys oblativus) is a large species of South American chinchilla rats, known from skeletal remains found by members of the Peruvian Expedition of 1912. The animals were buried alongside people in ancient Inca tombs at Machu Picchu in Peru. [2] It was considered extinct by the IUCN in 2008, [1] but ...
Species: O. cleberi. Binomial name. Oecomys cleberi. Locks, 1981. Oecomys cleberi, also known as Cleber's oecomys [2] or Cleber's arboreal rice rat, [1] is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. Known only from the Federal District in Brazil, its taxonomic status relative to O. concolor and O. paricola is unresolved.
Thomas, 1904. Oecomys paricola, also known as the Brazilian oecomys, [2] Brazilian arboreal rice rat, [1] or South Amazonian arboreal rice rat, [3] is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It is found in northeastern Peru as well as central Brazil south of the Amazon, where it lives in lowland tropical rainforests.
Binomial name. Oecomys roberti. Thomas, 1904. Oecomys roberti, also known as Robert's oecomys [2] or Robert's arboreal rice rat, [1] is a rodent species from South America in the genus Oecomys. It has a broad distribution in the Amazon biome, being found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.