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White-footed climbing mouse

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278:. The dorsal fur is typically medium brown, with the hairs being banded in yellowish and reddish hues, and long dark guard hairs being scattered throughout the coat. The flanks are rather paler and the underparts yellowish, cream or white, the hairs having grey bases. The tail is about the same length as the head-and-body and is densely clad in short reddish to dark brown fur and terminates with a long tuft of hair. The hind feet are large; the dorsal surface has a large dark patch which extends onto the first or second phalanges of digits II to V, and sometimes also onto digit I. The sides of the feet and around the toes are a silvery colour. 31: 75: 50: 286:
The white-footed climbing mouse is native to the rainforests of the Amazon Orinoco basin; it is present in the lowlands of west and central Brazil as well as the Andean piedmont area in eastern Bolivia and Venezuela. In Peru, its upper altitudinal limit is 1,750 m (5,700 ft). It is
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This is a generally uncommon species which has a very wide distribution. The population trend is unknown but the total population is assumed to be large and the
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With a head-and-body length of 180 mm (7 in), the white-footed climbing mouse is the largest species in the
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The white-footed climbing mouse normally lives in humid evergreen forests. It is a
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of the genus and the type location was the lower eastern slopes of the
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Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.; D'Elía, Guillermo (2015).
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and has been found among crops, where it is considered a
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has rated the animal's conservation status as being of "
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Sigmodontinae
Rhipidomys
Binomial name
Tschudi
species
South American
rodent
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana
Peru
Suriname
Venezuela
type species
Andes
genus

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