Ferreira's fish-eating rat

{{short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Ferreira's fish-eating rat

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Percequillo, A. |author2=Weksler, M. |date=2019 |title=Neusticomys ferreirai |volume=2019 |page=e.T136236A22336660 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136236A22336660.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Daptomys

| species = ferreirai

| authority = (Percequillo, Carmignotto, & Silva, 2005)

| synonyms = }}

Ferreira's fish-eating rat (Daptomys ferreirai) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from primary lowland tropical rainforest. It is named after 18th-century Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.{{Cite book | last1 = Beolens | first1 = B. | last2 = Watkins | first2 = M. | last3 = Grayson | first3= M. | title = The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals | publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press | date = 2009-09-28 | page = 133 | url = http://google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA133 | isbn = 978-0801893049| oclc = 270129903}} This species was originally assigned to the genus Neusticomys, but it has been moved to Daptomys along with four other species.{{cite journal |first1=Jorge |last1=Salazar-Bravo |first2=Nicolás |last2=Tinoco |first3=Horacio |last3=Zeballos |first4=Jorge |last4=Brito |first5=Daniela |last5=Arenas-Viveros |first6=David |last6=Marín-C |first7=José Daniel |last7=Ramírez-Fernández |first8=Alexandre R. |last8=Percequillo |first9=Thomas E. Jr |last9=Lee |first10=Sergio |last10=Solari |first11=Javier |last11=Colmenares-Pinzon |first12=Carlos |last12=Nivelo |first13=Bernal |last13=Rodríguez Herrera |first14=William |last14=Merino |first15=Cesar E. |last15=Medina |first16=Oscar |last16=Murillo-García |first17=Ulyses F.J. |last17=Pardiñas |display-authors=4 |year=2023 |title=Systematics and diversification of the Ichthyomyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) revisited: evidence from molecular, morphological, and combined approaches |journal=PeerJ |volume=11 |page=e14319 |doi=10.7717/peerj.14319 |doi-access=free |pmid=36655048 |pmc=9841913 }}