Eastern Amazon climbing mouse
Rhipidomys emiliae
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The eastern Amazon climbing mouse is a rodent species from South America. 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. It is often found in areas under cultivation.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Rhipidomys