Pine's crab-eating rat
| Pine's crab-eating rat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Ichthyomys |
| Species: | I. pinei
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| Binomial name | |
| Ichthyomys pinei Fernández de Córdova, Nivelo-Villavicencio, Reyes-Puig, Pardiñas, & J. Brito, 2020
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Pine's crab-eating rat (Ichthyomys pinei) is a species of ichthyomine rat belonging to the subfamily Sigmodontinae. It is native to southern Ecuador.
The species was named in honor of Ronald H. Pine who has been involved with numerous vertebrate surveys on variouse continents and who has been involved with studying bats, rodents and marsupials in Latin America.