Mimic Tree-Rat

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Mimic Tree-rat
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Xenuromys
Tate & Archibold, 1914
Species: X. barbatus
Binomial name
Xenuromys barbatus
(Milne-Edwards, 1900)

The Mimic Tree-rat, Rock-dwelling Giant Rat, or Rock-dwelling Rat (Xenuromys barbatus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Xenuromys barbatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
  • 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.