Musso's fish-eating rat
Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Genus: Neusticomys
Species:
N. mussoi
Binomial name
Neusticomys mussoi
Ochoa G. & Soriano, 1991

Musso's fish-eating rat (Neusticomys mussoi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to western Venezuela, where it has been found at altitudes of 1000 to 1200 m. It is semiaquatic and feeds on freshwater invertebrates.


This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Musso's fish-eating rat, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.