Trefoil-Toothed Giant Rat

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Trefoil-toothed Giant Rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Lenomys
Thomas, 1898
Species: L. meyeri
Binomial name
Lenomys meyeri
(Jentink, 1879)

The Trefoil-toothed Giant Rat (Lenomys meyeri) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Indonesia.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Lenomys meyeri. 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.