Ernst Mayr's Water Rat

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Ernst Mayr's Water Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Leptomys
Species: L. ernstmayri
Binomial name
Leptomys ernstmayri
Rümmler, 1932
Distribution map of L. ernstmayri and other species of Leptomys on New Guinea
Distribution map of L. ernstmayri and other species of Leptomys on New Guinea

Ernst Mayr's Water Rat (Leptomys ernstmayri) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Leptomys ernstmayri. 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.
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