
thumb | right | alt=Giant Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys thomasi) at Ilhabela-SP, Brasil | Giant Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys thomasi) at Ilhabela-SP, Brasil Phyllomys is a genus of arboreal spiny rat, geographically restricted to the forests of eastern Brazil.
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thumb | right | alt=Giant Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys thomasi) at Ilhabela-SP, Brasil | Giant Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys thomasi) at Ilhabela-SP, Brasil Phyllomys is a genus of arboreal spiny rat, geographically restricted to the forests of eastern Brazil.
The etymology of the genus name derives from the two ancient greek words (), meaning "plant leaf", and (), meaning "mouse, rat".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).