Harris's Rice Rat is a recently described sigmodontine rodent known only from montane forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. It is a rare, poorly known species whose taxonomy is still being clarified through genetic analysis. Very few specimens are known and nothing has been published about its ecology.
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