Sulawesi giant rat
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| Sulawesi giant rat Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Taeromys |
| Species: | T. dominator
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| Taeromys dominator | |
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The Sulawesi giant rat (Taeromys dominator) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[3] The species is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia, where it inhabits forests at elevations from sea level to the tree line.[1] It is frugivorous and semiarboreal.[1] While not currently listed as threatened, it is impacted by both habitat destruction and subsistence hunting.[1] In 2021, it was transferred from the monotypic genus Paruromys back to Taeromys, where it was previously placed by Henry Jacob Victor Sody in 1941.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Musser, G. & Ruedas, L. (2008). "Paruromys dominator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Thomas, O. (1921). "On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muride from the East-Indian Archipelago". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9. 7: 243–249. doi:10.1080/00222932108632519.
- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Species Paruromys dominator". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1435. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Handika, Heru; Achmadi, Anang S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Rowe, Kevin C. (2021). "Molecular and morphological systematics of the Bunomys division (Rodentia: Muridae), an endemic radiation on Sulawesi". Zoologica Scripta. 50 (2): 141–154. doi:10.1111/zsc.12460. ISSN 0300-3256.
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