Eastern Small-toothed Rat

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Eastern Small-toothed Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Macruromys
Species: M. major
Binomial name
Macruromys major
Rümmler, 1935

The Eastern Small-toothed Rat (Macruromys major) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Macruromys major. 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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