Tawi-Tawi Forest Rat
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| Tawi-tawi Forest Rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Rattus |
| Species group: | R. rattus |
| Species: | R. tawitawiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Rattus tawitawiensis Musser & Heaney, 1985 |
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The Tawi-tawi Forest Rat or Tawitawi Island Rat (Rattus tawitawiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in the Philippines.
[edit] References
- Baillie, J. 1996. Rattus tawitawiensis. 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/browse.asp?id=13001786.
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