Melomys
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Melomys Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent | |
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Melomys cervinipes | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Murinae |
Genus: | Melomys Thomas, 1922 |
Species | |
Melomys aerosus | |
Melomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. It contains the following species:
- Dusky Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys aerosus)
- Rossel Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys arcium)
- Bannister's Rat (Great Key Island Mosaic-tailed Rat) (Melomys bannisteri)
- Bougainville Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bougainville)
- Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys burtoni)
- Cape York Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys capensis)
- Short-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys caurinus)
- Fawn-footed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cervinipes)
- Yamdena Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cooperae)
- Dollman's Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys dollmani)
- Manusela Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fraterculus)
- Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys frigicola)
- Seram Long-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fulgens)
- Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys howi)
- White-bellied Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys leucogaster)
- Papua Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys lutillus)
- Manus Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys matambuai)
- Obi Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys obiensis)
- Pavel's Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys paveli)
- Bramble Cay Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rubicola)
- Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens)
- Buka Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys spechti)
- Long-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys talaudium)
References
- 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.
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