Amazon Bamboo Rat

Taxobox | name = Amazon Bamboo Rat
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Echimyidae
genus = "Dactylomys"
species = "D. dactylinus"
binomial = "Dactylomys dactylinus"
binomial_authority = (Desmarest, 1817)
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision ="D. d. canescens" Thomas, 1912
"D. d. dactylinus" (Desmarest, 1817)
"D. d. modestus" Lönnberg, 1921

The Amazon Bamboo Rat, "Dactylomys dactylinus", is a South American bamboo rat species from the Echimyidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

References

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*Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.