Giant naked-tailed rat

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Giant naked-tailed rats Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Subfamily: Murinae Genus: Uromys Peters, 1867
Species
Uromys anak Uromys boeadii Uromys caudimaculatus Uromys emmae Uromys hadrourus Uromys imperator Uromys neobritanicus Uromys porculus Uromys rex Uromys siebersi

The giant naked-tailed rats, genus Uromys, are a group of Old World rats from Australia, New Guinea, Guadalcanal and nearby islands.

[edit] Species

• Genus Uromys
  • Uromys anak Thomas, 1907
  • Uromys boeadii Groves and Flannery, 1994
  • Uromys caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867)
  • Uromys emmae Groves and Flannery, 1994
  • Uromys hadrourus (Winter, 1983)
  • Uromys imperator (Thomas, 1888)
  • Uromys neobritanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935
  • Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
  • Uromys rex (Thomas, 1888)
  • Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923

[edit] References

• 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.