Montane 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. 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.