Pictures and facts about the Incan hocicudo

Incan hocicudo

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Sigmodontinae
Species : Oxymycterus inca

 

The Incan hocicudo is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the Incan hocicudo

Incan Hocicudo or Oxymycterus inca is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . (Full text)

1. Inca -- (a ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family))
Inca
2. Inca -- (a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca Empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s)
Inca
(Source WordNet)