Montane Fish-eating Rat

Montane Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species: N. monticolus
Binomial name
Neusticomys monticolus
Anthony, 1921

The Montane Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys monticolus) is a species of semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is distributed throughout the Andes Mountains of western Colombia and northern Ecuador.

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