Child’s Rice Rat vs Corned Beef Wood

Nephelomys childi compared with Barringtonia calyptrata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Child’s Rice Rat	Corned Beef Wood
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Ericales (Ericales)
Family	Cricetidae	Lecythidaceae
Genus	Nephelomys	Barringtonia
Species	Nephelomys childi	Barringtonia calyptrata

Conservation Status

Child’s Rice Rat

LC — Least Concern

Corned Beef Wood

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Child’s Rice Rat	Corned Beef Wood
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Child’s Rice Rat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Found in Colombia.

Corned Beef Wood

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Child’s Rice Rat

The Child’s Rice Rat (Nephelomys childi) is a species in the genus Nephelomys. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.