Lund's Amphibious Rat

Lund's Amphibious Rat

Taxobox
name = Lund's Amphibious Rat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
fossil_range = Late Pleistocene to Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
tribus = Oryzomyini
genus = "Lundomys"
genus_authority = Voss and Carleton, 1993
species = "L. molitor"
binomial = "Lundomys molitor"
binomial_authority = (Winge, 1887)
synonyms ="magnus" Hershkovitz, 1955

Lund's Amphibious Rat, "Lundomys molitor", is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Uruguay. It is the only species in the genus "Lundomys".

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/10219/all Holochilus magnus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*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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