Western White-eared Giant Rat

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Western White-Eared Giant Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Hyomys Species: H. dammermani
Binomial name
Hyomys dammermani Stein, 1933

The Western White-Eared Giant Rat (Hyomys dammermani) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Source

• Baillie, J. 1996. Hyomys dammermani. 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.