Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat
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Isothrix bistriata Wagner, 1845 |
The Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat, Isothrix bistriata, is a South American brush-tailed rat species from the Echimyidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and Venezuela.
They are nocturnal and arboreal animals found in lowland evergreen rainforest, probably restricted to igapó and várzea habitats. Sometimes they can be seen at the entrances of their dens, in tree holes (specially hollow palms) on the borders of rivers.
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- Baillie (1996). Isothrix bistriata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
- Louise H. Emmons and François Feer, 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide. The University of Chicago Press.
- Infonatura