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Rio Negro brush-tailed rat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ1769630 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rio Negro brush-tailed rat or dark brush-tailed tree rat (Isothrix negrensis), is a spiny rat species found in Brazil.

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“Rio Negro brush-tailed rat” enters the record as species of mammal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Negro, brush-tailed and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 20-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Negro, brush-tailed and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1769630. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rio Negro brush-tailed rat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.