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White-faced tree rat
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricognathi
Family : Echimyidae
Subfamily : Echimyinae
Species : Echimys chrysurus
The White-faced tree rat is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the whitefaced tree rat
A young / baby of a whitefaced tree rat is called a 'kitten, nestling, pinkie or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A whitefaced tree rat group is called a 'colony, horde, pack, plague or swarm'.Countries
Brazil
Facts about the white-faced tree rat
The White-faced Tree Rat is currently listed as a vulnerable species (2003), and this particular species of rat is also endemic to Brazilian. (Full text)