Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat
Species of rodent
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Paramelomys |
Species: | P. lorentzii |
Binomial name | |
Paramelomys lorentzii (Jentink, 1908) |
Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The rat is named after Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, a Dutch explorer who passed through Lorentz National Park on his 1909–10 expedition.
According to the Kalam people of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, it helps spread karuka seeds.[2]
Names
It is known as mug or moys in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.[2]
References
- ^ Leary, T.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Wright, D.; Aplin, K.; Helgen, K. (2008). "Paramelomys lorentzii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T13125A3411727. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T13125A3411727.en.
- ^ a b Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1432–1433. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)
Division
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Heimyscus |
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Hylomyscus (African wood mice) |
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Mastomys (Multimammate rats) |
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Myomyscus (Multimammate rats) |
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Ochromyscus |
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Praomys (African soft-furred rats) |
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Serengetimys |
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Stenocephalemys (Ethiopian narrow-headed rats) |
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Melomys (Banana rats) |
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Paramelomys |
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Protochromys |
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Solomys (Naked-tailed rats) |
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Uromys (Giant naked-tailed rats) |
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Leptomys |
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Pseudohydromys (New Guinea false water rats) |
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Xeromys |
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- See also
- Aethomys–Chrotomys
- Colomys–Golunda
- Hadromys–Maxomys
- Melasmothrix–Mus
- Oenomys–Pithecheir
- Pogonomys–Pseudomys
- Rattus
- Otomys
- Others
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