Chinese bamboo rat

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Chinese bamboo rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Rhizomys
Species: R. sinensis
Binomial name
Rhizomys sinensis
J. E. Gray, 1831

The Chinese bamboo rat (Rhizomys sinensis) is a species of rodents in the Spalacidae family found in China, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

References

  • Lunde, D., Aplin, K. & Musser, G. 2008. Rhizomys sinensis. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 August 2009.
  • John Edward Gray. Characters of three new genera, including two new species of Mammalia from China. „Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London”. 1, s. 94–96, 1831. Zoological Society of London
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