On 2016-12-31, Dave Smith > wrote:

> Yes. You could be wrong. A marsh rat is a semi aquatic rodent about the
> size of a regular rat. Nutria are much bigger.

Apparently, there's a whole bunch of the critters ....water-based
rats which are an entire "taxonamy" (WETFTI!). I was jes wondering
if a "marsh rat" is anything like a "muskrat", the water-based rodent
I always see in our neck 'o de woods.

nb