HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Sigmodontinae
--> GENUS Neusticomys
SPECIES Neusticomys oyapocki
Author: | Dubost and Petter, 1978. | Citation: | Mammalia, 42: 436. | Common Name: | Guianan Ichthyomyine | Type Locality: | French Guiana, Trois-Sauts, near the banks of the Oyapock River; 02°10'N, 53°11'W. | Distribution: | Known only from three localities in French Guiana (Voss et al., 2001) and one in Amapá, NE Brazil (Nunes, 2002). | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Based on a single specimen originally referred to Daptomys. Maintained as a species by Voss (1988); additional material reported by Voss et al. (2001) and Nunes (2002). |
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