Long-Haired Rat

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Long-haired Rat
Conservation status
LR/lc \ status_system = iucn2.3
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Rattus
Species group: R. fuscipes
Species: R. villosissimus
Binomial name
Rattus villosissimus
(Waite, 1898)

The Long-haired Rat (Rattus villosissimus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Australia.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Rattus villosissimus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 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.