Scolomys

Taxobox
name = "Scolomys"
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
tribus = "incertae sedis"
genus = "Scolomys"
genus_authority = Anthony, 1924
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Scolomys melanops"
"Scolomys ucayalensis"

"Scolomys" is a genus of rodent in the Muridae family. It contains the following species:
* South American Spiny Mouse ("Scolomys melanops")
* Ucayali Spiny Mouse ("Scolomys ucayalensis")

References

*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.