Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Neusticomys
Species:	N. oyapocki
Binomial name
Neusticomys oyapocki (Dubost & Petter, 1978)

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.

References

1. ^ Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M., Percequillo, A. & Patton, J. (2008). Neusticomys oyapocki. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 April 2009.

• 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.