Abundance: 0.14 to 33.33% (median 1.32%)

Latitudinal range: -25.4° to 2.3°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (9), tropical/subtropical savanna (3)

Found in 14 samples

Brazil: Pinkaití Research Station (ground), Caucaia do Alto (pitfall traps), Fazenda Montes Claros (primary), Ilhas do Barbados (fragment A), Itamambuca, Emas National Park (live traps), PPBio-Amazônia (100 L buckets, I-shaped arrays), Saibadela, Refrigério and Tranqüilidade, Serra da Canastra National Park (rat traps), Devonian Scarp

French Guiana: Trois-Sauts

Peru: Iquitos–Nauta Highway, Reserva Nacional Allpahuayo-Mishana (Tomahawk traps)

See also Nectomys apicalis, Nectomys rattus, Nectomys sp., Nectomys squamipes