Venezuelan fish-eating rat

Venezuelan fish-eating rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Cricetidae
Subfamily:Sigmodontinae
Genus:Neusticomys
Species: N. venezuelae
Binomial name
Neusticomys venezuelae
(Anthony, 1929)

The Venezuelan fish-eating rat (Neusticomys venezuelae) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guyana and Venezuela.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Neusticomys venezuelae. 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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