Pictures and facts about the Fish-eating rats

Fish-eating rats

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Genus : Neusticomys

Facts about the genus Neusticomys, the fish-eating rats

The Ichthyomyini, the fish-eating rats, are also placed as an early branch, although there is less direct evidence to support the arrangment. (Full text)