Greater Stick-Nest Rat

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Greater Stick-nest Rat

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Leporillus
Species: L. conditor
Binomial name
Leporillus conditor
(Sturt, 1848)

The Greater Stick-nest Rat, House-building Rat, Rat Architecte, or Rata Arquitecto (Leporillus conditor) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Australia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Leporillus conditor. 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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