Lundomys

Skull of the lectotype ( Voss and Carleton, 1993, page 6)

The Lund Water Rat ( Lundomys molitor ) is a living in South America rodent species from the group of the New world.

These rodents reach a body length 16-24 cm, a tail length of 20 to 29 centimeters and a weight of 227-250 grams. Their fur is long and soft, the strikingly long tail is hairless. The fur color is yellow-brown or brown on the back, being almost black at the top and light brown on the belly. The small ears are hairy, the hind feet webbed carry and long, bristle-like hairs.

Lund Water Rats are in southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul ) and native to Uruguay. They inhabit grasslands and forests and are always to be found near the water. They are nocturnal, adapted to the marine life animals that can swim well. They live in nests with 30 centimeters in diameter, which are set up in the reeds around 1 meter above the water. The type should be a strict herbivore.

The species was first known only from fossils from the Pleistocene. Later, live animals have been discovered, but first as a kind of swamp rats ( Holochilus magnus ) described. But since it is the same way, the elderly, the Fossil been thought names, precedence.