Brazilian False Rice Rat

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Brazilian False Rice Rat
Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Pseudoryzomys
Hershkovitz, 1962
Species: P. simplex
Binomial name
Pseudoryzomys simplex
(Winge, 1887)

The Brazilian False Rice Rat, Pseudoryzomys simplex, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. It is the only species in the genus Pseudoryzomys.

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