Prehensile-tailed rat

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Prehensile-tailed Rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Genus: Pogonomys
Species: P. mollipilosus
Binomial name
Pogonomys mollipilosus
Peters & Doria, 1881
For the Molaccan Prehensile-tailed Rat, see Rattus morotaiensis.

The Prehensile-tailed Rat is a species of rodent that can be found in New Guinea and Australia where it occurs in the tropical rainforest of Queensland.


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