Montane Fish-eating Rat

Montane Fish-eating Rat
Montane Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species: N. monticolus
Binomial name
Neusticomys monticolus
Anthony, 1921

The Montane Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys monticolus) is a species of semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is distributed throughout the Andes Mountains of western Colombia and northern Ecuador.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Neusticomys monticolus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Packer, J. B., & Lee, T. E., Jr. (2007). Neusticomys monticolus. Mammalian Species, 805), 1-3. doi: 10.1644/805.1



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