Ferreira's fish-eating rat

Ferreira's fish-eating rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Cricetidae
Subfamily:	Sigmodontinae
Genus:	Daptomys
Species:	D. ferreirai
Binomial name
Daptomys ferreirai (Percequillo, Carmignotto, & Silva, 2005)

Ferreira's fish-eating rat (Daptomys ferreirai) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from primary lowland tropical rainforest. ^[1] It is named after 18th-century Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira. ^[2] This species was originally assigned to the genus Neusticomys , but it has been moved to Daptomys along with four other species. ^[3]

References

1. Percequillo, A.; Weksler, M. (2019). "Neusticomys ferreirai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T136236A22336660. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136236A22336660.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2009-09-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 133. ISBN   978-0-8018-9304-9. OCLC   270129903.
3. Salazar-Bravo, Jorge; Tinoco, Nicolás; Zeballos, Horacio; Brito, Jorge; et al. (2023). "Systematics and diversification of the Ichthyomyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) revisited: evidence from molecular, morphological, and combined approaches". PeerJ. 11 e14319. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14319 . PMC   9841913 . PMID   36655048.