Melomys
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 Talaud melomys (Melomys caurinus)
- Fawn-footed melomys (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.