Biak giant rat
Species of rodent
Biak Island uromys[1] | |
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Conservation status | |
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[2] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Uromys |
Species: | U. boeadii |
Binomial name | |
Uromys boeadii Groves and Flannery, 1994 |
The Biak Island uromys or Biak giant rat (Uromys boeadii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[1][2] It is known only from a single specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Biak.[2]
References
- ^ a b 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. 1514. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c Wright, D.; Leary, T. (2016). "Uromys boeadii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136773A519016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136773A519016.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordate
- Class: Mammalia
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Muridae
Division
Congomys |
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Heimyscus |
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Hylomyscus (African wood mice) |
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Mastomys (Multimammate rats) |
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Montemys |
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Myomyscus (Multimammate rats) |
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Ochromyscus |
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Praomys (African soft-furred rats) |
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Serengetimys |
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Stenocephalemys (Ethiopian narrow-headed rats) |
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Melomys (Banana rats) |
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Paramelomys |
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Protochromys |
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Solomys (Naked-tailed rats) |
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Uromys (Giant naked-tailed rats) |
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Leptomys |
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Pseudohydromys (New Guinea false water rats) |
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Xeromys |
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- See also
- Aethomys–Chrotomys
- Colomys–Golunda
- Hadromys–Maxomys
- Melasmothrix–Mus
- Oenomys–Pithecheir
- Pogonomys–Pseudomys
- Rattus
- Otomys
- Others
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