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Ferreira's fish eating rat

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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Genus
  
Higher classification
  
Neusticomys

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Neusticomys ferreirai

Rank
  
Species

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Rodent, Mammal, Sigmodontinae, Muroidea

Ferreira's fish-eating rat (Neusticomys ferreirai) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from one lowland tropical rainforest location in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is named after 18th-century Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.

References

Ferreira's fish-eating rat Wikipedia


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