Rhipidomys couesi - #4339

Coues's Climbing Rat
Captured in Venezuela, border of Aragua and Miranda states. Identified by JL Patton.
Geographic Distribution

Moist lowland forest that follows an arc from Trinidad, through N and WC Venezuela, to C Colombia (Meta).

Order/Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Rhipidomys
Specific Epithet
couesi
Image Date
6 June 1987
Photographer
RD Lord