Incanomys is a monotypic genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae; it contains the sole species Incanomys mayopuma, also known as the Incan water rat. This small, semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal was discovered in Peru following a three-month research expedition in Machu Picchu.
Incanomys is a monotypic genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae; it contains the sole species Incanomys mayopuma, also known as the Incan water rat. This small, semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal was discovered in Peru following a three-month research expedition in Machu Picchu.
== Etymology == The genus name Incanomys is a combination of the word Inca, in reference to the Inca Empire, and Ancient Greek (mouse).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).