rice rat in English

noun
1
a nocturnal rat that typically lives in marshy or damp areas, native to America, the Caribbean, and the Galapagos Islands.
Some rodents, especially the deer mouse, rice rat , white-footed mouse and cotton rat, may carry hantaviruses.

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1. The marsh rice rat was discovered in 1816 in South Carolina by John Bachman.

2. One, Oryzomys couesi, occurs with the marsh rice rat in Tamaulipas and southern Texas.

3. John Bachman discovered the marsh rice rat in 1816, and it was formally described in 1837.

4. It is also present in rice rat saliva and urine, and human infections may occur because of contact with these excreta.

5. With a head and body length of 110 to 128 mm (4.3 to 5.0 in), Oryzomys dimidiatus is a medium-sized rice rat.

6. The marsh rice rat is quite susceptible to periodontitis and has been used as a model system for the study of that disease.

7. Several animals prey on the marsh rice rat, including the barn owl, and it usually lives for less than a year in the wild.

8. Vitamin E, fluoride, and iodide protect against bone loss associated with this disease in the rice rat and a high-sucrose diet increases the severity of periodontitis.

9. Most northern archeological sites date from about 1000 CE and are associated with corn cultivation, but in some older cave sites the rice rat is found with the extinct giant armadillo Dasypus bellus, suggesting warm climatic conditions.

10. Cave and archeological remains indicate that the range of the marsh rice rat has extended substantially further north and west earlier in the Holocene, into central Texas, eastern Nebraska, southwestern Iowa, central Illinois, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, West Virginia, and southwestern Pennsylvania.

11. In the United States, the marsh rice rat is the only oryzomyine rodent except for Oryzomys couesi in a small area of southern Texas; the only other sigmodontines present are several species of cotton rats (Sigmodon) in the southern half of the country.