Oyapock's fish-eating rat

Species of rodent

Oyapock's fish-eating rat
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Anotomys
Species:
A. oyapocki
Binomial name
Anotomys oyapocki
(Dubost & Petter, 1978)

Oyapock's fish-eating rat, or Oyapock's aquatic rat (Anotomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.

References

  1. ^ Catzeflis, F.; Patton, J.; Percequillo, A.; Weksler, M. (2019). "Neusticomys oyapocki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T14742A22337025. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T14742A22337025.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  • 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.
Taxon identifiers
Neusticomys oyapocki


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