Lund's Amphibious Rat

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Lund's Amphibious Rat
Fossil range: Late Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: Lundomys
Voss and Carleton, 1993
Species: L. molitor
Binomial name
Lundomys molitor
(Winge, 1887)
Synonyms

magnus Hershkovitz, 1955

Lund's Amphibious Rat, Lundomys molitor, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Uruguay. It is the only species in the genus Lundomys.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Holochilus magnus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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  • 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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