Cook's hocicudo

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Cook's hocicudo

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Percequillo, A. |author2=Roach, N. |date=2019 |title=Oxymycterus josei |volume=2019 |page=e.T136453A22378870 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136453A22378870.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Oxymycterus

| species = josei

| authority = Hoffmann, Lessa & Smith, 2002

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Cook's hocicudo (Oxymycterus josei) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13000839 |page = 1158}} It is found only in southern Uruguay,{{Cite journal|title = Evaluation of the diagnostic characters of Oxymycterus josei Hoffmann, Lessa y Smith, 2002 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) with comments on the differentiation of the Uruguayan species of the genus|url = http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0327-93832008000100011&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en|journal = Mastozoología neotropical|issn = 0327-9383|pages = 117–123|volume = 15|issue = 1|first = F.|last = García-Olaso| date=June 2008 }} where it lives in wetlands, moist grasslands and scrub. The specifies is named after American zoologist Joseph "José" A. Cook.