Sulawesi Giant Rat

Sulawesi Giant Rat

Taxobox
name = Sulawesi Giant Rat
fossil_range = Recent
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Paruromys"
genus_authority = Ellerman, 1954
species = "P. dominator"
binomial = "Paruromys dominator"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1921)
synonyms = "ursinus" (Sody, 1941)
The Sulawesi Giant Rat ("Paruromys dominator") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is the only species in the genus "Paruromys". It is found only in Indonesia. It is listed as endangered as "P. ursinus" by the IUCN.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/16375/all Paruromys dominator] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/16376/all Paruromys ursinus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 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.


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