Western Colombian Rice Rat
Nephelomys pectoralis
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
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Nephelomys pectoralis is a species of rodent in the genus Nephelomys of family Cricetidae. Its type locality is 40 miles (64 km) west of the city of Popayán, Cauca Department, Colombia, at an altitude of 10,340 feet (3,150 m). American zoologist Joel Asaph Allen first described it in 1912 on the basis of 112 specimens from several locations in the Cordillera Occidental.
Nephelomys es un género de roedores miomorfos de la familia Cricetidae. Viven en los Andes, desde Bolivia hasta Venezuela, con una extensión occidental en las montañas de Costa Rica. El nombre genérico Nephelomys significa 'ratón de la neblina' y se refiere a su presencia en las selvas nebulosas.
Distribution
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