Verhoeven's giant rat
| Verhoeven's giant rat | |
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| Holotypes of Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (above) and Papagomys armandvillei (below), with four diagnostic characters marked | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Papagomys |
| Species: | †P. theodorverhoeveni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Papagomys theodorverhoeveni Musser, 1981
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Verhoeven's giant tree rat (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni) is an extinct rat of subfamily Murinae that lived on Flores in Indonesia.[2] It was assessed as being extinct in 1996. However, experts believe that it died out before 1500 AD. The species is known only from several subfossil fragments. It was named after Dutch priest Theodor Verhoeven.
References
- ^ Template:IUCN2011.1
- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1430. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Further reading
- Zijlstra, J. S.; van den Hoek Ostende, L. W.; Due, R. A. (2008). "Verhoeven's giant rat of Flores (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni, Muridae) extinct after all?". Contributions to Zoology. 77 (1): 25–31.
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