Kunsia
Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Akodontini
Genus: Kunsia
Hershkovitz, 1966
Species

Kunsia fronto
Kunsia tomentosus

Kunsia is the genus of the South American giant rats. It is named for Merle Kuns, a medical researcher who collected specimens of the woolly giant rat while studying rodent disease reservoirs in Bolivia. There are two species:


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