Round-tailed Muskrat

Round-tailed Muskrat Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Arvicolinae
Tribe:	Neofibrini
Genus:	Neofiber True, 1884
Species:	N. alleni
Binomial name
Neofiber alleni True, 1884

The Round-tailed Muskrat (Neofiber alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, sometimes called the Florida water rat.^[2] It is the only species in the genus Neofiber. It is found only in the southeastern United States. Its natural habitat is swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. ^ Linzey, A.V. & NatureServe (Jackson, D.R., Bergstrom, B. & Hammerson, G.) (2008). Neofiber alleni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 Jule 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
2. ^ "Florida water rat", Encyclopædia Britannica online, retrieved August 14, 2008

Sources

• 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.
• Round-tailed muskrat, Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida