Papagomys

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Kingdom Animalia Infraclass Eutheria Family Muridae Scientific name Papagomys Rank Genus		Phylum Chordata Order Rodentia Subfamily Murinae Higher classification Murinae

Lower classifications Flores giant rat, Verhoeven's giant tree rat

Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae. It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores:

Flores Giant Rat Papagomys armandvillei

Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (extinct)

Literature cited

Aplin, K.P. and Helgen, K.M. 2010. Quaternary murid rodents of Timor. Part I: New material of Coryphomys buehleri Schaub, 1937, and description of a second species of the genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 341:1–80.

Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1430. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Zijlstra, J.S., Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den and Due, R.A. 2008. Verhoeven's giant rat of Flores (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni, Muridae) extinct after all? Contributions to Zoology 77(1):25–31.

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