Round-tailed muskrat Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – Recent
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Cricetidae |
Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
Tribe: | Ondatrini |
Genus: | Neofiber F. W. True, 1884 |
Species: | N. alleni
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Binomial name | |
Neofiber alleni F. W. True, 1884
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Geographic range
N.a.alleni
N.a.apalachicolae
N.a.exoristus
N.a.nigrescens
N.a.struix
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The round-tailed muskrat (Neofiber alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, sometimes called the Florida water rat.[2] The species is monotypic in the genus Neofiber. It is found only in the southeastern United States, where its natural habitat is swamps.