Dormouse Tufted-Tailed Rat

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Dormouse Tufted-tailed Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Nesomyidae Genus: Eliurus Species: E. myoxinus
Binomial name
Eliurus myoxinus Milne-Edwards, 1855

The Dormouse Tufted-tailed Rat (Eliurus myoxinus) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Madagascar.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Eliurus myoxinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.

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