| Alston's Cotton Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Sigmodon |
| Subgenus: | Sigmomys Thomas, 1901 |
| Species: | S. alstoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Sigmodon alstoni Thomas, 1881 |
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Alston's Cotton Rat, Sigmodon alstoni, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela, where it inhabits lowland savannas.[1]