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Tawitawi forest rat

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Species of rodent

Tawitawi forest rat
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Rattus
Species: R. tawitawiensis
Binomial name
Rattus tawitawiensis
Musser & Heaney, 1985

The Tawitawi forest rat or Tawitawi Island rat (Rattus tawitawiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.

References

  1. Gerrie, R. & Kennerley, R. (2016). "Rattus tawitawiensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T19319A115145911. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T19319A22444649.en. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Rattus)
Abditomys
Bandicota
(Bandicoot rats)
Berylmys
(White-toothed rats)
Bullimus
Bunomys
Diplothrix
Kadarsanomys
Komodomys
Limnomys
Nesokia
Nesoromys
Palawanomys
Papagomys
Paruromys
Paulamys
Rattus
(Typical rats)
Sundamys
(Giant Sunda rats)
Taeromys
Tarsomys
Tryphomys
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Colomys–Golunda
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Oenomys–Pithecheir
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Rattus tawitawiensis


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