Timor rat
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Timor rat | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Rattus |
Species: | R. timorensis
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Binomial name | |
Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin & Boeadi, 1991
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The Timor rat (Rattus timorensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Indonesian West Timor,[2] where it lives in the teak forests.[3] It is known from a specimen collected near the summit of Mount Mutis.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Clayton, E.; Kennerley, R. (2017). "Rattus timorensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T19367A22445524. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T19367A22445524.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1491–1492. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Langton, Jerry (2014). Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 32. ISBN 9781466872028.