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Tufted-tailed Spiny Tree Rat

Mesomys occultus

The tufted-tailed spiny tree-rat or furtive spiny tree-rat (Mesomys occultus) is a spiny rat species known from Amazonas, northwestern Brazil, where it is found in tropical rainforest. The species is arboreal.

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