Tawi-Tawi Forest Rat

Tawi-Tawi Forest Rat

Taxobox
name = Tawi-tawi Forest Rat
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Rattus"
species_group = "R. rattus"
species = "R. tawitawiensis"
binomial = "Rattus tawitawiensis"
binomial_authority = Musser & Heaney, 1985
synonyms = The Tawi-tawi Forest Rat or Tawitawi Island Rat ("Rattus tawitawiensis") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found only in the Philippines.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19319/all Rattus tawitawiensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 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.


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