The yellow-bellied climbing mouse (''Rhipidomys ochrogaster'') is a species of

arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the Animal locomotion, locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. Th ...

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...

in the family

Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At almost 608 species, it is the second-largest family of mammals, and has m ...

. It is known only from southeastern

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, where it has been found in

cloud forest A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...

at an elevation of 1830 m. This species was long known only by the type collection until it was rediscovered in May 2010.Rediscovery of Rhipidomys ochrogaster J.A. Allen, 1901 (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with a redescription of the specie
Zootaxa 3106: 42–59 (2011)
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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. Rhipidomys Mammals of Peru Mammals described in 1901 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rhipidomys-stub