Eastern Amazon climbing mouse

The eastern Amazon climbing mouse (Rhipidomys emiliae) is a rodent species from South America.^[2] 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.^[1] It is often found in areas under cultivation.^[1]

Eastern Amazon climbing mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Rhipidomys
Species:	R. emiliae
Binomial name
Rhipidomys emiliae (J.A. Allen, 1916)