Giant naked-tailed rat

Giant naked-tailed rats Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Genus:	Uromys Peters, 1867
Species
Uromys anak Uromys boeadii Uromys caudimaculatus Uromys emmae Uromys hadrourus Uromys imperator Uromys neobritanicus Uromys porculus Uromys rex Uromys siebersi

The giant naked-tailed rats, genus Uromys, are a group of Old World rats from Australia, New Guinea, Guadalcanal and nearby islands.

Species

Genus Uromys - giant naked-tailed rats

• Giant Naked-tailed Rat, Uromys anak Thomas, 1907
• Biak Giant Rat, Uromys boeadii Groves and Flannery, 1994
• Giant White-tailed Rat, Uromys caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867
• Emma's Giant Rat, Uromys emmae Groves and Flannery, 1994
• Masked White-tailed Rat, Uromys hadrourus Winter, 1983
• Emperor Rat, Uromys imperator Thomas, 1888
• Bismarck Giant Rat, Uromys neobritanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935
• Guadalcanal Rat, Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
• King Rat, Uromys rex Thomas, 1888
• Great Key Island Uromys, Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923

References

• 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.