Hudson's Oldfield mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Thomasomys |
Species: | T. hudsoni
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Binomial name | |
Thomasomys hudsoni Anthony, 1923
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Hudson's Oldfield mouse (Thomasomys hudsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.[2] It is known only from the Andes in southern Ecuador, where it has been found at an elevation of 3100 m.[1] It was formerly considered a subspecies of T. gracilis.[3] It is named after American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood.