| Atlantic Bamboo Rat Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Subfamily: | Dactylomyinae |
| Genus: | Kannabateomys Jentink, 1891 |
| Species: | K. amblyonyx |
| Binomial name | |
| Kannabateomys amblyonyx Wagner, 1845 |
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| Subspecies | |
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K. a. amblyonyx Wagner, 1845 |
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The Atlantic Bamboo Rat (Kannabateomys amblyonyx), or Southern Bamboo Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Kannabateomys.