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King rat
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Uromys
Species:	U. rex
Binomial name
Uromys rex (Thomas, 1888)

The king rat (Uromys rex), or rat king, is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Like the two other species of rodent in Guadalcanal, it is placed in the genus Uromys. It lives in trees and is larger than Uromys porculus but smaller than Uromys imperator.

References

1. Gippoliti, S. 2002. Uromys rex 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 July 2007.
2. ^ Groves, C.P.; Flannery, T.F. (1994). "A revision of the genus Uromys Peters, 1867 (Muridae:Mammalia)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 46: 145–169. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2010.
3. 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. p. 1516. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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