| Giant Tree Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Echimyinae |
| Genus: | Toromys Iack-Ximenes, De Vivo & Percequillo 2005 |
| Species: | T. grandis |
| Binomial name | |
| Toromys grandis (Wagner, 1845) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Loncheres grandis Wagner, 1845 |
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The Giant Tree Rat (or White-faced Tree Rat), Toromys grandis, formerly known as Echimys grandis, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in flooded forest on both sides of the Amazon in Brazil.[1] It is the only species in the genus Toromys.