Musso's Fish-eating Rat

Musso's Fish-eating Rat
Musso's Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species: N. mussoi
Binomial name
Neusticomys mussoi
Ochoa G. & Soriano, 1991

Musso's Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys mussoi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Venezuela.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Neusticomys mussoi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 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.



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