Melomys
| Melomys Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Melomys cervinipes | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Melomys Thomas, 1922 |
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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 (Melomys bannisteri)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys bougainville)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys burtoni)
- Cape York mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys capensis)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes)
- Yamdena 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 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)† - The Bramble Cay melomys was considered the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef. It became extinct in 2016, the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to man-made climate change.
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rufescens)
- Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys spechti)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys caurinus)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys talaudium)
References
- Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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