Ferreira's fish-eating rat

Ferreira's fish-eating rat
Ferreira's fish-eating rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species: N. ferreirai
Binomial name
Neusticomys ferreirai
Percequillo, Carmignotto & Silva, 2005

Ferreira's fish-eating rat (Neusticomys ferreirai) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from one lowland tropical rainforest location in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.[1] It is named after 18th-century Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.

References

  1. ^ a b Percequillo, A. & Weksler, M. (2008). Neusticomys ferreirai. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 April 2009.

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