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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

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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.

    • References

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