| Ferreira's fish-eating rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Neusticomys |
| Species: | N. ferreirai |
| Binomial name | |
| Neusticomys ferreirai Percequillo, Carmignotto & Silva, 2005 |
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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.[1] It is named after 18th-century Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.