Alpine Woolly Rat

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Alpine Woolly Rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Mallomys Species: M. gunung
Binomial name
Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin, Groves & Adams, 1989

The Alpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys gunung) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Indonesia. When specimens where brought to a museum the female rats were pregnant with only one baby, so it is assumed that the rat gives birth to only one rat at a time.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Mallomys gunung. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.