Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat
Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species: N. oyapocki
Binomial name
Neusticomys oyapocki
(Dubost & Petter, 1978)

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.

References

  1. ^ Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M., Percequillo, A. & Patton, J. (2008). Neusticomys oyapocki. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 April 2009.
  • 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.



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