Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
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| Black-Tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Melomys |
| Species: | M. rufescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Melomys rufescens (Alston, 1877) |
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gracilis (Thomas, 1906) |
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The Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
References [edit]
- Baillie, J. 1996. Melomys gracilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
- Baillie, J. 1996. Melomys rufescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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