Cariri climbing mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

{{speciesbox | name = Cariri climbing mouse

| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Catzeflis, F. |author2=Patton, J. |author3=Percequillo, A. |author4=Weksler, M. |date=2019 |title=Rhipidomys cariri |volume=2019 |page=e.T136357A22374057 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136357A22374057.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Rhipidomys

| species = cariri

| authority = Tribe, 2005

}}

The Cariri climbing mouse (Rhipidomys cariri) is a partly arboreal rodent species from South America. It is known from two mesic localities in Ceará, northeastern Brazil, within the semiarid caatinga ecoregion.{{cite journal

| last = Tribe

| first = C. J.

| title = A New Species of Rhipidomys (Rodentia, Muroidea) From North-Eastern Brazil

| journal = Arquivos do Museu Nacional

| volume = 63

| issue = 1

| pages = 131–146

| publisher = National Museum of Brazil

| location = Rio de Janeiro

| date = Jan–Mar 2005

| url = http://acd.ufrj.br/~museuhp/CP/Arquivos/Arq.2005/Arq.63-1/Arqs%20MN%2063%281%29%20completo.pdf#page=133

| issn = 0365-4508

| accessdate = 2009-07-16

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090205082635/http://acd.ufrj.br/~museuhp/CP/Arquivos/Arq.2005/Arq.63-1/Arqs%20MN%2063(1)%20completo.pdf#page=133

| archive-date = 2009-02-05

| url-status = dead

}} It has been found in areas under cultivation. Cariri is the name of an administrative microregion within the state of Ceará.