Spiny Rat
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| Spiny Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Rattus |
| Species group: | R. leucopus |
| Species: | R. praetor |
| Binomial name | |
| Rattus praetor (Thomas, 1888) |
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The Spiny Rat (Rattus praetor) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
[edit] References
- Baillie, J. 1996. Rattus praetor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
- Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
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