Hylaeamys oniscus

Hylaeamys oniscus, the sowbug rice rat, is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Oryzomys as Oryzomys oniscus.^[1]

Hylaeamys oniscus
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Hylaeamys
Species:	H. oniscus
Binomial name
Hylaeamys oniscus (Thomas, 1904)
Synonyms
Oryzomys oniscus Thomas, 1904 Hylaeamys oniscus – Weksler, Percequillo, and Voss, 2006

It occurs only in northeastern Brazil.^[1] It is close to Hylaeamys laticeps, which occurs further south in Brazil, and the two have been considered to be the same species.