Las Cajas water mouse
| Las Cajas water mouse | |
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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: | Neusticomys |
| Species: | N. orcesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Neusticomys orcesi (Jenkins & Barnett, 1997)
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The Las Cajas water mouse (Neusticomys orcesi) is a species of
Cajas National Park in Ecuador.[2] Its natural habitat is the high grassland (páramo) of the park, where it lives near streams, eating small fish and large invertebrates.[1] It was formerly placed in the genus Chibchanomys, but was moved to Neusticomys in 2023.[3]
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