Prehensile-tailed rat

Prehensile-tailed rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Genus: Pogonomys
Species: P. mollipilosus
Binomial name
Pogonomys mollipilosus
Peters & Doria, 1881
Not to be confused with Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat.

The prehensile-tailed rat (Pogonomys mollipilosus) is a species of rodent that can be found in New Guinea and Australia where it occurs in the tropical rainforest of Queensland.


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