| Waterhouse's Swamp Rat | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Genus: | Scapteromys |
| Species: | S. tumidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Scapteromys tumidus (Waterhouse, 1837) |
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Waterhouse's Swamp Rat, Scapteromys tumidus, is a semiaquatic rodent species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, where it lives in freshwater and salt marshes, as well as open grassland of the pampas.[1]