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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
Genus: | Nectomys |
Species: | N. apicalis
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Binomial name | |
Nectomys apicalis
Peters, 1861
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Nectomys apicalis, also known as the western Amazonian nectomys, [2] is a semiaquatic species of rodent in the genus Nectomys of family Cricetidae. It is found east of the Andes in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, east into western Brazil; further to the east, it is replaced by N. rattus. It lives near watercourses in lowland tropical rainforest. [1] Its karyotype has 2n = 38–42, and it probably actually represents several distinct undescribed species. [2]