Long-footed Water Rat

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Long-footed Water Rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Leptomys Species: L. elegans
Binomial name
Leptomys elegans Thomas, 1897

The Long-footed Water Rat (Leptomys elegans) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Leptomys elegans. 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.