Round-Tailed Muskrat

Taxobox
name = Round-tailed Muskrat
fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene - Recent


status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
tribus = Neofibrini
genus = "Neofiber"
genus_authority = True, 1884
species = "N. alleni"
binomial = "Neofiber alleni"
binomial_authority = True, 1884
synonyms = The Round-tailed Muskrat ("Neofiber alleni") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family, sometimes called the Florida water rat. [ [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/510859/Florida-water-rat "Florida water rat"] , Encyclopedia Brittanica online, retrieved August 14, 2008] It is the only species in the genus "Neofiber".It is found only in the United States.Its natural habitat is swamps.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

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* Kirkland, G.L., Jr. 2000. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/14520/all Neofiber alleni] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*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.
* [http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Neofiber_alleni.pdf Round-tailed muskrat] , "Field Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida"