| Large-headed rice rat | |
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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: | Hylaeamys |
| Species: | H. megacephalus
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| Binomial name | |
| Hylaeamys megacephalus (Fischer, 1814)
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| Synonyms | |
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Mus megacephalus Fischer, 1814 | |
Hylaeamys megacephalus, also known as Azara's broad-headed oryzomys[2] or the large-headed rice rat,[1] is a species of rodent in the genus Hylaeamys of family Cricetidae, of which it is the type species. It is found mainly in lowland tropical rainforest from its type locality in Paraguay north through central Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela onto Trinidad and Tobago. To its west and east, other closely related species of Hylaeamys are found: H. perenensis in western Amazonia, H. acritus in Bolivia, and H. laticeps and H. oniscus in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil.
- ^ a b Percequillo, A.; Patton, J.; Pires-Costa, L.; D'Elia, G.; Patterson, B. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Hylaeamys megacephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29403A115168269. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
- Weksler, M.; Percequillo, A. R.; Voss, R. S. (2006-10-19). "Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3537). New York: American Museum of Natural History: 1–29. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5815. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 84088556.
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