Marsh rice rat (IMAGE)

Ecological Society of America

Marsh rice rat

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A tagged, adult marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) is measured in the field. Marsh rice rats are abundant in coastal saltmarshes and are the reservoir host of a pathogenic hantavirus (Bayou orthohantavirus). [photo taken in 2016]

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Anna Pérez-Umphrey

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