Andean Swamp Rat

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Andean Swamp Rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Reithrodontini
Genus: Neotomys
Thomas, 1894
Species: N. ebriosus
Binomial name
Neotomys ebriosus
Thomas, 1894

The Andean Swamp Rat (Neotomys ebriosus) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is the only species in the genus Neotomys. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Neotomys ebriosus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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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