Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Genus:	Neusticomys
Species:	N. oyapocki
Binomial name
*Neusticomys oyapocki* (Dubost & Petter, 1978)

Oyapock's Fish-eating Rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.

References

^ Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M., Percequillo, A. & Patton, J. (2008). Neusticomys oyapocki. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 April 2009.

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.