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n. - A genus of rodents comprising the muskrats.

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  • Rodents include beaver Castor canadensis and muskrat Ondatra zibethica.
  • Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) next to its house in a cattail-dominated marsh.
  • Mussels are an important source of food for aquatic predators and land-based scavengers such as river otters (Lutra canadensis), muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus), raccoons...
  • Bystrinskiy Nature Park encloses the Ichinskiy zoological zakaznik, and includes Canadian beaver Castor canadensis, collared lemming Dicrostonyx lorquatus, blackcapped marmot...
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