Musso's fish-eating rat

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Musso's fish-eating rat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Daptomys
Species:
D. mussoi
Binomial name
Daptomys mussoi
(Ochoa G. & Soriano, 1991)

Musso's fish-eating rat (Daptomys mussoi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to western Venezuela, [2] where it has been found at altitudes of 1000 to 1200 m. It is semiaquatic and feeds on freshwater invertebrates. [1] This species was originally assigned to the genus Neusticomys , [2] but it has been moved to Daptomys along with four other species. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Soriano, P. (2018). "Neusticomys mussoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T14741A22337139. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T14741A22337139.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Species Neusticomys mussoi". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1135. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  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.


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